File transfers from sd cards "pause"

[Pesukarhu]

Today i noticed my reader was not wanting to cooperate at all. When even accessing a sd/micro sd card through the reader, it would take some time for windows to recognize it and the thumbnails in explorer took a while to load (the green bar over the address bar was moving, but not very quickly). I tried to play some 720p60 video files (mp4, 8mbps) in vlc, and it would play a minute or so and then stopping. Sometimes skipping around would resume playback.

 

File transfers would start and show about 2-3mbps speeds and transfer about 100mb at a time, then freezing. After a few minutes it would transfer another 100mb and freeze again. This continues until it either completes the transfer or crashes explorer. I also tried the same card in my old pc which has an internal usb 2.0 card reader, it had some trouble as well but it was functional.

 

Then i tried it with another sd card, (2gb) and it worked.(still sluggish though) Then i tried moving the card reader to a usb 2.0 port. Now the thumbnails loaded instantly and it was recognized faster. Then i tried the 32gb card, using the usb 2.0 port and it works. I can't tell if it has anything wrong with it. File transfers work at about 20 mbps.

 

This card reader worked almost perfectly before my ryzen upgrade, it did originally have some trouble mounting the cards if not un-/replugged after boot. I will boot to my windows 10 install now and check if it works over there.

[Anghammarad]

It could just be, that the card is slowly dying. Those SD Cards usually don't show "aging" and just go Kaputt. 

[Pesukarhu]

42 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

It could just be, that the card is slowly dying. Those SD Cards usually don't show "aging" and just go Kaputt. 

The card is just a couple of years old, and i haven't used it very much. It is not a brand-name card though, so it could be that it is just a bad card.

Just tried a different usb 3 cable, apparently the original one is broken. That is micro-usb 3, probably inserted the cable on the micro side about 20 times. It has been hanging from the cable though...