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Best Samsung tablet for D4s (and how plus setup recommended)

Started Jan 16, 2019 | Questions thread
Ken Gosden Veteran Member • Posts: 3,025
Re: Best Samsung tablet for D4s (and how plus setup recommended)

No reason why you cannot do this fairly easily.  The tough part will be getting a small, portable USB3 reader for your card formats.  Generally I find that readers for tablets work best when they handle the least physical formats.  I say this because on some tablets it can be tough to determine which card you are accessing if you have more than one slot occupied.  Also, tablets do not always provide large amounts of power via their USB ports so I would not want to be driving too many occupied slots as a power blip could corrupt a card.

All that aside, I regularly transfer both RAW and jpg files from SD cards and my Samsung Tab S4 using a USB3 card reader.  I have also plugged in a small, US powered 4-port USB3 hub and copied from an attached SD reader to a 128GB thumb drive for backups.  All very easy using the built-in or 3rd party file managers.  I don't recall it being annoyingly slow for my 32GB cards.  The hub and drives did get pretty warm during the process.

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