cheap SD card reason for slow transfer?

[dontfollowme]

Hi,

I've just bought a new camera and so far so good, I'm pleased with it. Due to my memory card from Play not arriving I picked up a 2GB card from Carphone Warehouse. Using my Hama card reader the photos I've taken seem to take an age to transfer to my PC - sometimes as slow as 10KB/second. Please tell me this will improve when my branded card arrives?

[mybrainhurts]

But it depends on which card is coming...

[Simpo Two]

Memory cards have a speed rating - a factor often overlooked in the desperation to get one for 99p.

However brand alone is not a guarantee of speed - I have some Lexar Pro cards but as they're a few years old they're 40x. Currently running Lexar Pro 300x UDMA; speed is the least of my worries

[dontfollowme]

mybrainhurts said:

But it depends on which card is coming...

PNY 8GB

Play said:

1. Write speed up to 6MB/sec
2. Read speed up to 20MB/sec
3. Operating consumption 150mA max
4. Write protect switch
5. Data Retention 1000,000 hours

[dontfollowme]

Simpo Two said:

Memory cards have a speed rating - a factor often overlooked in the desperation to get one for 99p.

Have you seen how much SD cards are on the high street?

[Simpo Two]

dontfollowme said:

Have you seen how much SD cards are on the high street?

Does anyone buy them in the High Street?

I use CF but IIRC SD speeds are Class 1,2 etc. As ever, YGWYPF.

[XG332]

just grab yourself a bargin of ebay, there a fraction of the price.

[bonsai]

At a guess I'd say that the card reader has been plugged into a USB 1.1 port. You may have got a warning about that when it was plugged in.

Although in that case I'd expect speeds to be nearer 300-500KB/s. 10KB/s indicates something is very very wrong somewhere along the line. I'd try it in another computer first to see how it performs.

[dontfollowme]

Just an update, a reboot seems to have sorted things out.

[oilslick]

XG332 said:

just grab yourself a bargin of ebay, there a fraction of the price.

Indeed they are, and often they're cheap Chinese copies with piss-poor read/write speeds.