R5 Buffer Clearing

John Sheehy wrote:

Tazz93 wrote:

Steve W wrote:

Tazz93 wrote:

When I first got the camera I checked the buffer and it was able to clear the buffer from the CFexpress card in under 10 seconds (with the Sony Tough 128GB). Now with both of my cards (Sony Tough 128GB and Lexar 128GB), it takes the same time as the UHS-II cards, which is roughly 20 seconds. I can see why Canon might have throttled it down, but I'm curious if others are seeing the same performance drop.

Personally, I'm not sure if it just my camera or if one of the recent firmware updates have altered it.

Have you set up your R5 to write the same image to both card simultaneously? If so that is probably it because with will write the both at the same time a the speed of the slowest card. Also what is the guaranteed write speed of the UHS-II cared ( it is UHS-II I hope and a fast one) Can you provide more specific information on your UHS card?

That's with only one card in the camera, but very good idea. That easily could have been the issue. That said, don't get sidetracked on the SD card, it works wonderful, and 20 seconds to clear the buffer on an SD card is quite good.

The CFexpress cards should be around 6 second to clear. I think I might have been a little vague before, but the problem is with the two CFexpress cards. Neither is able to clear the buffer as quickly as before.

See the article below for reference on a speed test of the various cards.

https://petapixel.com/2020/09/22/cfexpress-a-real-world-performance-comparison/

Have you since changed to settings with smaller file sizes (RAW to JPEG, FULL to 1.6x, or RAW to cRAW)?...

Oddly enough, when I first read this it didn't seem like a direction to try for a fix. When arbitrage asked about the settings to replicate it, I figured I should check and see if it was any better with JPEGs and sure enough it resolved it.

Sorry to discount your suggestion because I didn't see why it would work. Thanks.