CardDrain

Local-first card ingestion for Mac

A product by Numeric Arts & Sciences.

Drain the cards. Keep the day moving.

Insert cards. Walk away. CardDrain drains your high-speed cards at their true transfer speed, clears them so they're ready to use again, and has them back in your hands in minutes. The process of copying into server or cloud storage takes place while you're back out in the field, fully verified and fully automatic. Pop in, grab an espresso, pop out.

CardDrain toaster-shaped device with three colorful memory cards

Cards in. Local cache first. Remote spool in the background.

The handoffGet your cards back before the server is finished.
RapidDrain 4 64G cards and prep them for reuse in an average of around 4 minutes. This is a real world figure based on UHS-II cards and inexpensive USB3 readers.
ReliableAll data verified after copy, before clearing cards. Verified again on copy to the server.
Ready AgainAlready ready already. Did we mention fast?

A better handoff

A fistful of cards. Three clean steps.

CardDrain separates the urgent part of the job from the part that can happen quietly in the background.

01 / INSERT

Load cards

Put full cards into your readers. CardDrain notices them and starts draining automatically, with no queue management required.

02 / CACHE

Keep working

Each card lands on the Mac first. Once its contents are confirmed safe locally, the card can go straight back into circulation.

03 / NOTIFY

Get the all-clear

CardDrain spools the data remotely in the background, then sends a screen notification and text when a card is ready to reuse.

Made for work that leaves the office

Whenever removable media is the first mile.

CardDrain is for teams that collect valuable data in the field and need a dependable way to turn a full card into a reusable card without creating a transfer bottleneck.

Start with the Mac build

Make the card handoff the easy part.

The download location is ready for the signed CardDrain macOS release. When the first build is published, it will be available here.

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