[ale] Copy time for USB ext HDD

[Richard Bronosky]

That's 24 hours of your life you'lll want back some day. ;-)

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Scott<skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> Many of the USB2 hubs will function at the "lowest common
>> denominator". Meaning, if you have any USB1 device plugged in
>> (keyboard, mouse, joystick, USB humping dog, etc.), you get USB1
>> performance out of everything. That may not be the situation with
>> every hub, but the 2 I've owned were that way.
>>
>> On 6/20/09, Scott <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Brian Pitts wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 06/20/2009 12:44 PM, Scott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Trying out an external USB HDD enclosure to copy files from my system
>>>>> and it seems to be a lot slower than I had thought. I have a new Seagate
>>>>> 500GB SATA in the enclosure and I started to do a copy of my music
>>>>> library consisting of about 76GB flac files. I started at 16:24
>>>>> yesterday and it is now at 60GB at 12:44. Is that right? Math was never
>>>>> a strong point for me.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> That's much too slow. Is the hard drive plugged directly in to a USB2
>>>> port? I copied 60GB from a 160GB PATA drive in a USB enclosure
>>>> yesterday. It took around an hour, which suggests I was transferring
>>>> around 20 megabytes per second.
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Brian Pitts
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>>> It's plugged into a USB2 HUB which is on a USB2 port. Would that slow it
>>> down?
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>>
> Apparently the HUB was not working as a USB2. I bypassed the HUB and
> plugged the drive directly into the USB2 port on the MoBo, and all is good.
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