[ale] Copy time for USB ext HDD

[Brian Pitts]

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