Moving data to external usb HD

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

"Jay" <> wrote in message
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> 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?

There are some issues with the accuracy depending on the system, but I have
found it not to be dependable. On the opposite, a Backup of 43 GBs worth of
data using Complete PC Back up in Vista x64 took 35 to 40 mins here.

AMD Turion X2 2.0
2 GBs of RAM
ATI 256 MB GPU
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"Jay" <> wrote in message
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> "Jay" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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?
>

"Jay" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Jay" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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

"Lang Murphy" <> wrote in message
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> "Jay" <> wrote in message
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>> "Jay" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> 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..

"Kevin Weaver" <> wrote in message
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> "Lang Murphy" <> wrote in message
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>> "Jay" <> wrote in message
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>>> "Jay" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>> 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..
>


Sorry... that was a minute and 47 seconds, not an hour and 47 minutes. It
was just a gig of data. Just trying to baseline it. 40x1:47 is... uh...
lemme fire up the calculator... is approximately 71 minutes.

But, yeah, the file copy fubar performance it my biggest complaint with
Vista.

Lang