Slow playback on SL2

[hirohhhh]

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I noticed that playback on SL2 is significantly slower than on SL, even though I have much faster SD cards:

- Lexar 128GB Professional 2000x UHS-II SDXC Memory Card 300Mb/S V90 (SL2)
- Sandisk Extreme PRO SDHC UHS-I 32GB 95MB/s C10 U3 V30 (SL)

It takes couple seconds to start the playback and couple seconds to go to the next image. Every next image goes normally, but it looks like it has to buffer first time I hit the play button. I never had more than 20-50 photos on the card at any time. It never happened on SL. This looks like something can be fixed with the firmware update, but I'm curious s this case for you too?

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[michali]

1 hour ago, hirohhhh said:

I noticed that playback on SL2 is significantly slower than on SL, even though I have much faster SD cards:

- Lexar 128GB Professional 2000x UHS-II SDXC Memory Card 300Mb/S V90 (SL2)
- Sandisk Extreme PRO SDHC UHS-I 32GB 95MB/s C10 U3 V30 (SL)

It takes couple seconds to start the playback and couple seconds to go to the next image. Every next image goes normally, but it looks like it has to buffer first time I hit the play button. I never had more than 20-50 photos on the card at any time. It never happened on SL. This looks like something can be fixed with the firmware update, but I'm curious s this case for you too?

No such issues here.  I'm using Sandisk  64GB Extreme Pro 300MB/s UHS-II in slot #1 & Sandisk  32GB Extreme Pro 300MB/s UHS-II in slot #2.

I suspect it may be a card issue, maybe with the 128GB Lexar?

FWIW I stopped using Lexar cards a couple of years ago, too flimsy & fragile. My local camera dealer told me that that of all the cards they sell, the Lexar are the most problematic, with many customers returning them. YMMV.

[Joakim]

No issue for me either with a couple of Sony UHS-II cards, I had an issue with a Lexar card being slow but it wasn't consistent so hard to tell if it was the card or just a temporary thing.

[Eclectic Man]

5 hours ago, michali said:

No such issues here.  I'm using Sandisk  64GB Extreme Pro 300MB/s UHS-II in slot #1 & Sandisk  32GB Extreme Pro 300MB/s UHS-II in slot #2.

I suspect it may be a card issue, maybe with the 128GB Lexar?

FWIW I stopped using Lexar cards a couple of years ago, too flimsy & fragile. My local camera dealer told me that that of all the cards they sell, the Lexar are the most problematic, with many customers returning them. YMMV.

Is there an analysis of SD card reliability?  I was on holiday in CIeland and got the dreaded 'Card cannot be accessed' message on my camera.  Three days of photos completely inaccessible.  No disk repair software would work, and my MacBook did not even register a card inserted into the SD card slot. :o(