OSX 10.8.4 MBP: Expresscard/34 & SXS very slow transfer spee

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Muffinman
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OSX 10.8.4 MBP: Expresscard/34 & SXS very slow transfer spee

Post by Muffinman » August 23rd, 2013, 4:58 pm

Hello,

I've got an mid 2009 Macbook Pro with an expresscard/34 slot. When transfering data from a Sony SBS64G1A the read speed is at around 3.4MB/s. The card has a max read speed of 1.2Gb/s, so assuming expresscard can deliver, it should be around 150MB/s.

I've installed the Sony SXS driver and I'm transferring through finder (rather than that Sony application).

Can someone tell me if this normal? If there is a solution to speed it up?

Thanks in advance, Maarten
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Re: OSX 10.8.4 MBP: Expresscard/34 & SXS very slow transfer

Post by alisterchapman » September 3rd, 2013, 10:12 am

Are you sure you have the latest driver version. There have been lot's of driver updates, each larger card normally needs a new update. Also transfer speed will depend on what you are transferring to, is the destination fast enough?
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Re: OSX 10.8.4 MBP: Expresscard/34 & SXS very slow transfer

Post by Muffinman » September 3rd, 2013, 1:12 pm

Well, I've downloaded the latest driver from the Sony website. I've already tried to reinstall it.. that didn't help. I'm transferring data to an internal hdd, so that shouldn't be a problem.

I do believe to remember that when I first installed the driver (a few osx minor updates back, 10.8.x) it did work at a decent speed. I'm not sure whether that was fantasy or reality...
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Re: OSX 10.8.4 MBP: Expresscard/34 & SXS very slow trans[Sol

Post by Muffinman » September 3rd, 2013, 4:48 pm

Back when I initially installed the SXS package it was up to speed. Somewhere along the way it got very slow. Maybe with an OSX update another UDF driver got installed. Anyways, I had udf: Version: 2.3 (Last Modified: 6/25/12 8:03 AM) installed. Now I've installed from the sony website: sxsudf_fs: Version: 2.0.0d007 (Last Modified: 5/29/12 10:36 AM). That has brought it back to speed at 160-169MB/s
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