"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:e4aR22BGIHA.2372@xxxxxx Quote:
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>> "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?
>> >
>
> 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.
>
> Lang I've got that beat.
Two Sata drives. With NCQ 7200 RPM With 16mb cache. Sata 300 And it took
2+hours to copy 40gigs. The transfer rate is a joke. Yeah vista is better
then XP heheheh..