On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: > > 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. > > Len If your're in the USA a USB 2 card is about $12.00 at ebaay or Fry's Electronics. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP
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