Pretty sure this is due to some CRC magic and to more evenly distribute writes on the cells. Like enterprise SSDs do it.
To topic: the DTII is a beast. Letting it down bc slow transfer speeds is bullocks. How often do you transfer samples? Maybe I’m a special use case, but when I got it, I put 2GB of drums and short one hits, some more wavetables on it and that’s it. This is a sampler, that’s what I save a lot of storage real estate for.
I’ll quote from the update topic:
So the reason seems to be legacy compatibility, although I can’t think of any legacy reason for that apart from old Akai samplers.
Yeah, I think those corrupt +drives and crashes during transfer were way worse than the time it took. I had luck. I started the process before going to bed and had my ~8gb uploaded the next morning.
But those are also utilized over USB, so I was trying to say that sending files one by one is not a limitation of USB in general , but a limitation of the current protocol implementation.
Excellent research, thank you 
This might give hope for the future when something else as MIDI will be used to transfer files to the DT2!
Are we living in 1984? Why are Elektron using MIDI as their transfer protocol? There’s no legitimate excuse for this in 2024.
you kidding, 
I do it everyday inbetween my giddiness attacks over the dt2.
unless they really just have a thing for sysex then I don’t know what that’s all about, somebody should ask them I’m sure they’d tell us
still slow 
I’ve assumed there’s some good technical good reason. I mean for the life of me I can’t think what it is, but they had to pick this weird & ancient protocol for a reason
I don’t spend days transferring samples … I mostly use digitakt to sequence etc
If it really annoyed me I’d sell it and use something else.
Or keep it and endlessly complain on a forum for shits and giggles
why not offer people the eternal compatibility/flexibility … it’s nothing to sniff at … if Transfer stops working or you find one of these 20 years down the road or you are on an OS Transfer doesn’t support, you’d be grateful it did
i have no horse in this race, so don’t y’all be pestering me with complainin’ about this overlooked bonus feature … i honestly don’t mind the speed, i’ll never upload that much, and only when needed … whilst it doesn’t bother me, i’d have no complaints if they augmented this
The fact that it can accept tons of formats including zips, it’s no surprise that there’s some conversion going on which takes time and ram.
I transfer before a meal or a nap 
So 1.02 / Transfer hasn’t done anything to increase the transfer speed? What about stability?
I don’t think that’s true. The betas doubled the transfer speed, so I don’t see why the official release (not installed here yet) would be slow again.
It’s not as slow as before but it’s still abysmal for 2024 standards - not a big deal for me bc i don’t have a massive sample library or anything
I haven’t experienced any crashing or anything just yet
I guess if all you’re doing is building sequences with selected one shots, its not a problem, but its so disappointing that this weird DT2 protocol almost forces the user to work in a specific way.
I have 100gb of sample folders on a 2tb SSD on my MPC Live 2. The other day I rediscovered some absolute gems I am going to use in a future tune. It’s that ‘in one place’ / standalone library workflow that saves so much time with samplers. It also inspires accidents to bloom. It is a real shame, but others will disagree.
Every sampler I’ve had needs to be used in a specific way … at least it’s not korg sampler horrendous. I never did get microgranny to accept my samples and that was typical micro sd card speed… had to use tweezers to get the card out.
Digitakt may also be processing / converting in addition to transfer ( though hopefully the mac / pc is converting)
To summarise my thoughts - it might not be ‘2024’ but I’m not transferring that often - the last update is fine for me - I don’t care anymore. Bigger things to deal with.
Yes I think that’s the case for a lot of people. It’s just all a bit weird that when they were designing this v2 of a flagship sampler, this seemed an acceptable design. Anyway, me crapping on about it will change nothing, haha… 
To quote Bruce Lee (who is probably quoting some ancient poet):
“It’s like a finger pointing away to the moon; don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all of the heavenly glory”.
I’ll let you decide what the ‘finger’ is and what the ‘heavenly glory’ is in this analogy. Now, off to enjoy this amazing new offering from Elektron (and subsequently mute this thread).
As someone who works with a lot of legacy services and has a lot of time deficiencies in my life, it seems a livable annoyance.