"Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eJxuxyBGIHA.4228@xxxxxx
Quote:
> HP laptop with 2GB RAM and 2.2Ghz Centrino Duo.
> Windows Vista Business 32 bit.
> I have just plugged in my new LaCie 500GB USB 2.0 external hard drive.
> Windows did it's installing drivers thing and all is good.
>
> I selected some folders containing approx 350 files and totaling 34GB and
> am moving them to this new volume.
>
> The dialogue is currently saying 3 hours remaining (it was 5 hours about
> 10 minutes ago).
> Is this slow speed expected?
>
> I have no idea what the benchmark for this sort of transfer would be, nor
> do I understand the finer points of read/write transfer rates.
>
> Anything I can do to speed things up?
>
> Jay
10 minutes later and we are on 47 minutes remaining.
I suppose a better way to ask my question (giving the massive fluctuations
in minutes remaining) is how long would you expect 1 GB to transfer across
on the above set-up?