MSO46 Transferring data is incredibly slow

I have an MSO46 and MSO44 scope that I use at work. We got these scopes because of their many features, including the very large sample memory.

I have about 14 GB of waveform data stored that I would like to analyze on my PC. I have found that saving to flash drive takes forever and is not reliable. I have tried copying to flash drive overnight, however, this operation failed on the first file (overnight).

Is there a faster way to transfer data? Over ethernet or other interface? I am extremely frustrated, as I have no good way to analyze the data right now.

Hello,

Take a look at mounting a network drive onto your scope. This will allow you to share a directory from your computer to your scope. With this, you can save data files to the directory on the scope and have them populate on your computer. If you have your data saved into a folder on the scope, you can copy that folder into the shared directory and it will upload to your computer.

You can find information on how to mount a network drive to a standard instrument on page 95 of the user manual: https://www.tek.com/en/manual/oscilloscope/456-series-mso-5-series-mso. Check and see what firmware is currently installed on your scope. There is a minimum firmware version needed to be able to mount a drive.

Note that beneath the instructions to mount the drive, you will find instructions on how to mount a TekDrive on the instrument. TekDrive is a paid option that is similar to mounting a network drive, but will save the data to the cloud instead.

For those of us who face IT restrictions on what can be connected to the network, is there a solution to copy large files that does not require the scope to be connected to the network or directly to the PC via ethernet cable? Our IT department is convinced that the security of the scope is too low to be on (or connected to something on) our corporate network..<br> <br> Thanks