On Mar 24, 2010, at 3:44 PM, 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?
MDDs only have USB 1 onboard. The theoretical speeds are 12MBits/ second for USB 1 vs 400 for firewire and 480 for USB 2.
88 hours seems a little slow, but moving that quantity over USB 1 is going to take many hours.
If your MDD only has the original USB and no add in cards and the My Book only has a USB 2 interface, it would be well worth it to pick up a USB 2 card for your MDD.
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