thanks for all the answers peeps. found a local card for $17!
cheers

On Mar 24, 12:44 pm, Demetrius <[email protected]> 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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