long wait for usb drive

[Andy Shnikes]

great, you know how long copying 135gb of data at roughly 20 mins a gb will take? Not to mention i dont even have the free space on my computer, i suppose im stuck with verrry long wait times.

next time i will no better.

[Andy Shnikes]

ok well the stuff on my 320gb hard drive is stuck in fat32 until i can move it and reformat, but the 80gb hard drive ive got on my friends computer is also formatted in fat32
however he has a 14 gb video file i need to transfer to my computer, so i can play with it in fcp. Because it is not able to be broken up how would you suggest i get it transferred to my computer?

[David Roth weiss]

The only way is to use the MacDrive solution I posted before.

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[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Just for the record on my old G5 Dual 2GHz PCI-X Macs with Tiger, USB2 benchmarks at 9-12MBytes/sec max for video file copying/transfer, using either the inbuilt ports, or a PCI USB2 card, with LaCie 500GB or Freecomm 400GB USB2 external drives.
FW400 is 28-35MBytes/sec, and FW800 gives 55-68MBytes/sec.

I don’t know if the USB channel on more recent Macs is any faster.

[Tim Irwin]

I think the reason you are having slow transfer times is because your titanium powerbook only has usb 1.0. Your USB 2.0 drive is backwards compatible, but usb 1.0 is painfully slow. I don’t think reformatting will help much, having a firewire drive would speed things up considerably.

-t