[ale] Copy time for USB ext HDD

[Scott]

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?