I have a prime4, prime4+, and a Numark Mixstream Pro go. My Prime4s load times are decent enough I can’t complain. The Mixstream on the other hand just switching between crates takes almost 2min every time also have a waveform go completely out for almost the whole song. The screen also froze multiple times over 20sec. I know this can’t be normal so what am I doing wrong? Any one have any clues on what I could do differently bc I bought this small battery controller for my easier events outside. Wedding ceremony, outside birthday parties I did a yacht rock party last week a golf course. So not crazy DJ stuff but my screen and library def can’t be freezing all the time. The Tumbdrive I’m using for the Numark is a ScanDisk Extreme PRO 1TB. The prime 4s I’m using internal SSD.
maybe its the Thumb drive itself. Try another stick or an external ssd. I switched from my stick to a HDD, not even a SSD, and it solved my problems with slow loading times.
“Sandisk” is not good, get something else. I would suggest a Samsung EVO 1TB microSD card, which will include the little adapter needed to plug it into something like the Prime Go. Also, you may need a SD card reader for your computer to load songs/use it with the Engine PC software. Those are about $20 or a bit more on Amazon. The Sandisk brand is not very good even though they get used a lot. I work in IT and I’ve known about the product for years. For just saving Excel files and stuff like that, sure they are fine, but for any “performance” needs, steer clear. They may work ok on some devices and badly on others. I have the Mixstream Pro Go and my tracks load just fine between crates, songs, etc using a Samsung SD Card…
SD & MicroSD cards are have been known degrade and are therefore pretty unreliable. They die on Single Board Computers (SBCs like the Raspberry PI) all the time and is why many manufacturers have switched to including eMMC, SSD or NVME interfaces natively. Also because of this reliability issue, higher-end camera manufacturers have been putting dual card slots in their devices for redundancy purposes. That is, the cameras write to both SD cards at the same time.
If you have the SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable 1TB (SDSSDE81-1T00), you may have a defective device.
If it is one of these drives with the orange-lined hole in one corner, avoid them. They were sold cheap and advertised as speedy. My experience was that they unmounted all the time, randomly, it always took quite some time for my software to get the access back … Technically, there is something wrong with at least some of their models: Some of the components are a bit too large for the circuit board and loose connection at some point - data loss is the consequence.
Now I use a Samsung Shield T7 with 4GB and I can say nothing bad about it.