Randy Brister said:
At 40MBs/sec is 25 secs per GB, which will give me a download speed of under 1 min on a 2GB card, and under 2 mins on a 4GB card. At that speed, I can download 16-2GB and 4-4GB cards in under a half hour. If so, I'll be ecstatic.
Randy
Randy,
You and I both know that time is money - I won't dispute that. And its worth spending extra money to save time.
What I was suggesting was to work in parallel with all your cards - that way, you are not tied to the process of load one card, click, wait... remove card, load card, click, wait... etc... The added benefit is that you wouldn't have to spend $3600 on new Extreme4 cards when it sounds like you have plenty of storage with the 3s.
Again, my main assumption is that you can point Snapsync to a local hard drive directory instead of a removeable drive. If that is the case, you can use your existing bank of FW readers - and even add more of the inexpensive RW019 readers from Lexar and get half the cards loading simultaneously.
At 1/3 the speed, 2Gb cards would take 3 mins and 4Gb cards would take 6 mins. But with say just 6 readers going at once, you would have 6 cards done in 3 minutes (twice that of the Ext4 combo). Then, as your running your second batch of 6 card downloads, you can then be working in Snapsync on the temp directories. Snapsync
should work alot quicker off the hard drive than off a CF card and you can be done with the first set of temp directories by the time the second set is downloaded (6 minutes total time so far)
Repeat the process with the remaining cards (4 x 2Gb and 4 x 4Gb) and you can be done downloading in 15-18 minutes. Then run your final Snapsync routine and you'd be caught up in less time as well as saved $3500 in new cards (-$100 spent on additional readers)
I'm just thinking outloud here - and assumptions abound. I'm all about saving time - but if I can save money along with time, then I gain favor with my accounts payable dept (wife).
Brian.