What do you recommend to copy SD card to flash drive?

[Darrell KSR]

I guess my choices are:

a) connect both SD card reader and flash drive to USB ports on computer, and tell it to copy from SD to flash drive. Seems like when I've done that before it was painfully slow.

b) copy SD card to hard drive (via SD card reader), then copy from hard drive to flash drive. Two-step process, rather than one.

Am I missing any other options?

One lesson to learn--and pretty much, too late for me. ALWAYS buy the fastest SD card you can get. May not matter for the recording, but if you're going to be transferring the video, faster is better.

[KentuckyWildcat]

I'd go with A

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[KentuckyWildcat]

Assume you don't have a built in card reader?

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[dan_bgblue]

Answer a.

If you are copying to flash for permanent storage, have you considered using a CD disc instead of the flash drive?

[Darrell KSR]

It's a 10+ gb file, so it wouldn't fit my CDs.

I'm just doing a) for now. Takes about 3 hours to copy. I started to try to copy it to the hard drive, and it was going to take 3 hours, so the flash drive didn't slow it down.

I didn't think about the built in reader. It does have one, in the back of it that I never think about. Would that be faster than using a card reader?

I will try to use a Chromebook Saturday when I do it again. Maybe that will be faster.

[Darrell KSR]

What I'm doing is just copying it for transport to a coach. It's a 90 minute video file. Just trying to copy it as quickly as possible to a flash drive so he can upload it.

[KentuckyWildcat]

USB 3 port and USB 3 stick is about the only thing that will improve that.

[Darrell KSR]

Well, good to know that it's not just outrageously for me only, it will just take that much time.

Actually, my obligation has gotten a little easier now, because he just has me uploading it directly to his site. Piece of cake to do that, although it still takes about 2 hours.