scanning to USB drive speed
1569585
No degradation in speed when sent to thumb drive in onboard port, slight delay (1-2 secs) when scan sent via wireless to LAN-based USB HD.
1569586
At 300 dpi auto duplex, the scanning speed is 7 pages a minute to a USB Flash Drive. It is dog slow. Brother skimped on the built in CPU. The Built-in CPU will not scan to an OCR'd PDF. It is a raw PDF that you have to OCR later in Adobe Acrobat or other software. It cannot scan at 600 dpi to a USB Flash Drive.
787673
The fastest scan speed is Black & White, 300 dpi, and single-side scanning. With the above settings it moves pretty fast, but gets slower from there. Also, the scanner misses sheets pretty regularly, so I have moved to counting all sheets scanned and ''finding''the ones that it missed.
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It Is the speed of the USB on when you copy files from a computer to the USB flash drive or from the flash drive to the computer. Some time you are coping big files and it takes for ever. it is because the USB is 2.0, 3.0 if super fast and nice to copy 50 GB of information. in time can be depending on the file type, 20GB in 2.0 USB 30 minutes to 1 hr. now 20GB in 3.0 USB around 6 to 12 minutes.
1926559
My Canon LiDE100 scanner is plugged directly into my computer with a USB cable, don't know what power my USB has. It works great that way.
1541999
USB is v3. Firewire is also an option that is built in. I have used this scanner to scan B/W's in medium format (negative to print) from the 70's and 80's and chromes (slides) from my combat tours of Vietnam. It is slick! It is very good at automatic but can be fine tuned for more critical needs in the Pro settings. Extremely versatile and has been a godsend for me in preserving my history.
1217765
You can use the cable that came with the drive (actually, you have to since USB 3.0 has one different end). It will automatically transfer data at 2.0 speeds.
133208
I have not yet succeeded how to scan directly, but I believe it can be done... the usb stick works very nicely though...i keep it plugged into the printer all the time, then when i scan something, i just move it over to my iMac and upload it ! that way i have whatever i've scanned backed up on the "stick" and in my computer.
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It is not specified in any information included with the drive , nor anything I see on-line at WDC.com. Probably a 5,400 RPM drive but it doesn't really matter. The drive is intended for backing up data not for high performance data access. The slowest link will determine the transfer speed so the USB controller on your computer will be a limiter. It took me over 5 1/2 hours to copy 622 GB to this unit. It held close to a 30 MB/sec rate on a USB 2 port. About the same results for a Firewire 800 connection I have used on other tests on other (faster drives). My suggestion is ... don't worry about the RPMs. If you need backup space this will work well.
1037340
I really don't have any way to measure these things, other than simple observation. My experience has been excellent. Compared to USB 2, this setup has definitely, at the VERY least, doubled the USB 2. When using multiple ports simultaneously, I did not detect any slow-down. Install was easy enough, and the company's support has been very responsive. I needed to contact them because Windows didn't recognize the hardware. Highpoint offered a "dummie" driver to prevent Windows Device Manager from constantly displaying a warning that there is something wrong with a device. The device works very well, and I have never experienced any problems with it. I hope this response helps you!
1069645
I just tried scanning with the USB cable hooked to my laptop and I was successful; I prefer using the memory card though...
1090899
Thanks, I'll look into how that is done. Also, can a flashdrive handle a program this large or only just files?
1985281
I attached the USB drive to the standard USB port and use file explorer to browse it. It just simple worked.
992481
I believe it uses an sD card and I have to connect it USB to download my scans.
2016604
Yes, this drive functions on USB 2.0 ports but the file transfer speed is a bit slower.
1969250
Scanning speed (beyond that built into the scanner itself) is also dependent upon your computer's CPU's data processing speed, hard drive speed and available free space for processing and storing information, and the amount of installed RAM. Other factors include your computer's operating system version, and how many other applications and files you have open at the time.
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With USB 2.0, it'll move roughly 16 MB/ second. With USB 3.0, it'll move roughly 28 MB/ second.
765103
I used the system profiler. I believe you might be able to check by right clicking on the drive and selecting get info as well.