SD card slows to a crawl during transfer

[Protongog]

Hi Guys, looking for help

I  have a new motherboard (Aorus X470 ultra gaming ) and I use it with  a Ryzen 5 3600. I am a Photographer and use SD cards in my cameras and us a Kingston card reader on USB 3.0. When transferring my speeds drop from 220 mb/s to 16 mb/s about half way through. Any ideas on why and can I speed it up. If its helpful am transferring to a 3TB Mech drive but it also happens on my NVME 

 

Thanks for any advice.

[Turtle Rig]

5 minutes ago, Protongog said:

Hi Guys, looking for help

I  have a new motherboard (Aorus X470 ultra gaming ) and I use it with  a Ryzen 5 3600. I am a Photographer and use SD cards in my cameras and us a Kingston card reader on USB 3.0. When transferring my speeds drop from 220 mb/s to 16 mb/s about half way through. Any ideas on why and can I speed it up. If its helpful am transferring to a 3TB Mech drive but it also happens on my NVME 

 

Thanks for any advice.

This is normal SD cards are not superman here!  Their slow as fak unless you specifically pay much more and get a faster one and what not.

[Guest]

A few questions: How much data are you typically transferring? Do you use all the same cards, or card from many vendors? What is the duration of a typical transfer for you?

How much RAM is in your system?

[Guest]

26 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

This is normal SD cards are not superman here!  Their slow as fak unless you specifically pay much more and get a faster one and what not.

How did you come to this conclusion?

[Protongog]

2 hours ago, Den-Fi said:

A few questions: How much data are you typically transferring? Do you use all the same cards, or card from many vendors? What is the duration of a typical transfer for you?

How much RAM is in your system?

Yes I have 32gb 3200mhz RAM the cards are Sandisk extreme pro 300mb/s, normal transfer is 8gb of data and transfer times about 80 seconds to 300 seconds depending on the speed lost during transfer. Thanks 

[Guest]

Just now, Protongog said:

Yes I have 32gb 3200mhz RAM the cards are Sandisk extreme pro 300mb/s, normal transfer is 8gb of data and transfer times about 80 seconds to 300 seconds depending on the speed lost during transfer. Thanks 

Ah ok, ignore the statement about it being normal behavior. it is not. My most recent additions are SanDisk Extreme cards and I regularly dump 20GB+ without issue.

Can you do a transfer with resource monitor open and see if anything looks unusual or if any metric becomes pinned?

[Protongog]

3 hours ago, Den-Fi said:

Ah ok, ignore the statement about it being normal behavior. it is not. My most recent additions are SanDisk Extreme cards and I regularly dump 20GB+ without issue.

Can you do a transfer with resource monitor open and see if anything looks unusual or if any metric becomes pinned?

Not sure what I am looking for, I have not used resource monitor much. 

[Guest]

Task manager is fine too. Just want to see if CPU/RAM/HDD get to or close to 100% utilization.

[Protongog]

3 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

Task manager is fine too. Just want to see if CPU/RAM/HDD get to or close to 100% utilization.

Nothing showing, all running normal 10% on the CPU 

[Guest]

Have you tried another reader?

[Protongog]

3 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

Have you tried another reader?

Good idea, I have another one somewhere I will dig it out.