ResScan 3.10 data download time

[Gadget_OSA]

It takes my PC 5 minutes plus to download data of only a few Mb from an S9 SD card into ResScan 3.10. I am running Vista home premium and using an SD card reader plugged into one of my USB ports. This seems extremely excessive to me. The download pop up reports this should take ~10 - 15 secs. The download status initially immediately goes to 4% complete then sits there for several minutes (+5) appearing to do nothing. The system then prompts to overwrite or ignore existing data. When the overwrite prompt is answered it only takes a few seconds for the data to be transferred and reported on screen.

Is this normal?

[billbolton]

Is this normal?

No. The download should take a few 10s of seconds at most.

Cheers,

Bill

[Ruffinit]

What the software is doing is comparing the data on the card to the data already on your machine. Once you answer the pop up the data actually downloads which is only a couple seconds. I don't know how to tell you to get it NOT to do the comparative check. There may be a configuration change on your software to change this.

[Mount Snorius]

Hi. I use ResScan on a MacBook Pro with Parellels and it does take a couple of mins. to download the data. Not sure that helps, but at least, you're not alone in the waiting game there.

[dave21]

It takes my PC 5 minutes plus to download data of only a few Mb from an S9 SD card into ResScan 3.10. I am running Vista home premium and using an SD card reader plugged into one of my USB ports. This seems extremely excessive to me. The download pop up reports this should take ~10 - 15 secs. ..... Is this normal?

Yes, I see the same speed. It seems to check all the files on the card and not just the last nights files, at least from what I can tell. I'm running Vista too, it's a fast HP Tablet I'm running, I also tried it on another identical Vista Tablet PC and also on my Netbook and have similar read times (albeit the Netbook is much slower due to the 1Ghz processor).

I usually pop in the card, open ResScan, open Patient record, click DOWNLOAD DATA then wait for the OVERWRITE/DISCARD box to popup (usually about 30 seconds), click DISCARD, then go away and have a shower or get my early morning caffeine intake.

Thanks
Dave

[Nord]

It takes my PC 5 minutes plus to download data of only a few Mb from an S9 SD card into ResScan 3.10. I am running Vista home premium and using an SD card reader plugged into one of my USB ports. This seems extremely excessive to me. The download pop up reports this should take ~10 - 15 secs. ..... Is this normal?

Yes, I see the same speed. It seems to check all the files on the card and not just the last nights files, at least from what I can tell. I'm running Vista too, it's a fast HP Tablet I'm running, I also tried it on another identical Vista Tablet PC and also on my Netbook and have similar read times (albeit the Netbook is much slower due to the 1Ghz processor).

I usually pop in the card, open ResScan, open Patient record, click DOWNLOAD DATA then wait for the OVERWRITE/DISCARD box to popup (usually about 30 seconds), click DISCARD, then go away and have a shower or get my early morning caffeine intake.
Dave

Could be Vista too...

When the card is more loaded up with 8 days... takes maybe 20 seconds wait time.
I'm using Mac with virtual machine on VM Ware and Win XP Pro...

Then the slowdown begins while windows scans, upgrades etc... now thats a pain.

Nord

[Gadget_OSA]

Thankyou for your responses. I'll assume it's a Vista quirk at this point although in my case it takes the majority of time to get to the overwrite/discard prompt with the download pop up reporting "not responding" during that period. Once it reaches the prompt point it only takes a few seconds to download the data.

Thx again.

[dave21]

I think it's how ResScan is calling the data through the driver, because I can literally copy the entire card contents 5 or 6 times in the same amount of time it takes to read the data off of the card.

I tried to see if I could bypass reading from the SD by creating a SUBST drive letter mapped to a folder which was a copy of the SD card, but ResScan looks for the SD card drive letter itself

[DreamDiver]

My laptop is over five years old and has an internal USB 1.0 card reader. Perhaps yours is also an older model? If you're using an external USB card reader, it may be that you have an older model card reader too. If it's using the USB 1.0 standard, it's considerably slower. You may want to consider buying a more modern USB SD card reader. If your card reader is capable of reading SDHC, disregard this suggestion - you've already got a modern enough card reader.

[dave21]

My laptops (Tablet) - HP2710P are 1 years old, has integral USB 2.0 ports, but the card reader is directly on the mother board. For my Netbook, it's also a year old Acer Aspire One likewise with an integrated card reader on the motherboard. The two HP2710P's run Vista, but the Acer Aspire One runs Windows XP Home and it's slow for all three PC's so I don't think it's just a Vista problem.

All three PC's card readers support SDHC.

Thanks
Dave

[Gadget_OSA]

I think it's how ResScan is calling the data through the driver, because I can literally copy the entire card contents 5 or 6 times in the same amount of time it takes to read the data off of the card.

I tried to see if I could bypass reading from the SD by creating a SUBST drive letter mapped to a folder which was a copy of the SD card, but ResScan looks for the SD card drive letter itself

My PC's a couple of years old running a dual core quad and current device standards. System's fast enough to handle most things. I also have found the same situation where I can lift the data off the card in seconds with a straight file transfer. WRT the card reader, I assume if it was only USB 1.0 that Vista would prompt my with the "I can do this faster if you use a USB 2.0 device" message.

[billbolton]

I timed my daily download from my S9 SD card this morning on a Windows 7 Ultimate X64 system. The card reader is branded Comsol, and is a 27 in 1 type that I've had for several years now.

From clicking on Start Download to being able to click on Close took ~40 seconds.

Cheers,

Bill

[dave21]

I'm pretty sure the 10-15 seconds is just a message a developer put in at some point thinking "Oh it won't take long to transfer the data" without actually timing it in a real life situation. This is usually where Quality Assurance teams come in before software is released to test on a number of different devices to put a benchmark in place and to ask the developer to change a message which provides ridiculous timing. Likewise to test all softwares features and functions and translations.

Thanks
Dave

[Gadget_OSA]

I'm pretty sure the 10-15 seconds is just a message a developer put in at some point thinking "Oh it won't take long to transfer the data" without actually timing it in a real life situation. This is usually where Quality Assurance teams come in before software is released to test on a number of different devices to put a benchmark in place and to ask the developer to change a message which provides ridiculous timing. Likewise to test all softwares features and functions and translations.

Thanks
Dave

That's how I'm seeing it to Dave. I guess they don't do too much QA so they can keep their prices down

[billbolton]

I'm pretty sure the 10-15 seconds is just a message a developer put in at some point thinking "Oh it won't take long to transfer the data" without actually timing it in a real life situation.

Since I see different numbers to that in the download dialog, and the numbers vary if I'm downloading more than one day of data, your theory, and accompanying inuendo, doesn't seem to be very soundly based at all.

Cheers,

Bill