"Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> 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
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> 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?
>
Took 1:47 to copy a 1GB file from my Dell laptop to an external USB drive.
Xcopying 178 files that were approx. 1GB took 1:38.
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