Yoy are using USB 1 ; unless you installed USB 2 card;  USB 1 is slow
On Mar 24, 2010, at 15:44, Demetrius wrote:

> trying to move a few hundred gb from my MDD to new Western Digital "My
> Book Essential" 1TB drive, but it's going agonizingly slow... says 88
> hours for 250 gb and seems to be actually moving at that pace... it's
> a usb connection, and i reformatted the drive into two partitions.
> any idea why it's so slow?
> 
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