Q2 Saving images, slow.

[kimaldis]

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8 hours ago, antigallican said:

Since I’m the one paying for the storage and the backup and the offsite backup and the father, son, grandson rotation of terabyte after terabyte I hope you won’t think me snippy if I say in this case ‘I’ll be the judge of that.’ 🤔

You’re using a 5 grand camera. 

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[antigallican]

On 12/27/2021 at 10:05 AM, kimaldis said:

You’re using a 5 grand camera. 

Read my reply to Jaap

[vedivv]

I suspect Q2 has some software glitch with SD cards.  I mostly use Sony 300MB/S cards, and Q2 reads and writes really fast.  My workflow is to use Q2 to format the card once photos are transferred.  Every now and then, the card becomes super slow in Q2.  Unfortunately, Q2 does not have "low level formatting" option.  So I use a Canon to do the low-level formatting, and formatting again in Q2.  The card becomes fast again after low level formatting.  You might want to try it.

Q2 V1 firmware was really pretty bad with SD cards.  From V2 and on, even slower cards (170MB/s) are reasonably fast and I rarely had to wait for buffer to clear.  Except the abovementioned glitch now and then.