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From: W. eWatson on 6 May 2010 14:43
(Just added more to Subject that I missed)
On 5/6/2010 11:36 AM, W. eWatson wrote:
> I'm trying to transfer about 64G from an internal drive to an external
> Seagate Free Agent 1.0 terrabyte drive (Subject). The estimated time is
> about 3.3 hours. That seems very slow. I have no idea if I'm using a USB
> 2.0 or 1.0 port. I ran Sandra and it showed USB Controller 5, 12419 NEC
> PIC to USB 2.0. No other USB controller shows any USB version, that is,
> not 1.0. I have about a six year old ASUSA7S333 MB.
>
> How do I know which of the 6 USB ports (four on a card), two in front,
> is the 2.0 port? Only five USB controllers are listed by Sandra. One of
> the front ones may not be connected.

From: T Shadow on 6 May 2010 17:21
"W. eWatson" <wolftracks(a)invalid.com> wrote in message
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> (Just added more to Subject that I missed)
> On 5/6/2010 11:36 AM, W. eWatson wrote:
>> I'm trying to transfer about 64G from an internal drive to an external
>> Seagate Free Agent 1.0 terrabyte drive (Subject). The estimated time is
>> about 3.3 hours. That seems very slow. I have no idea if I'm using a USB
>> 2.0 or 1.0 port. I ran Sandra and it showed USB Controller 5, 12419 NEC
>> PIC to USB 2.0. No other USB controller shows any USB version, that is,
>> not 1.0. I have about a six year old ASUSA7S333 MB.
>>
>> How do I know which of the 6 USB ports (four on a card), two in front,
>> is the 2.0 port? Only five USB controllers are listed by Sandra. One of
>> the front ones may not be connected.
>

3.3 hours is way less than USB 1.1 would take. While USB2 is supposedly
480mb/s, ~130mb/s is what one device gets. I'd think under perfect
conditions it would take over an hour with USB2. USB 1.1 would be more than
12 hours. IOW don't expect internal drive speeds.

Look in Device Manager, sorted by connection & then resources(IRQ), and make
sure the USB port your using isn't on the same IRQ as something(s) that's
used heavily. LIke say, the graghics card. If so try another one. This
type thing is more in line with a realistic speed increase you can expect.
BTW expected times is just that, you need to see what it actually takes to
decide how fast it is.


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