On Apr 28, 2005, at 10:38 AM, jtainter wrote:
Last night I backed up 33.5 GB of photo files from my D drive to a 40 GB Flashtrax. This is part of my "upgrade" to XP -- which Tom C., Rob S., Wheatfield, and Shel are kindly helping me with.
So how long does it take to transfer that much over USB 1.1? Well, from time to time Windows 98SE would tell me that it needed another 7 million minutes. I think that's roughly 13 years. The actual time was about 12 hours.
I have a SCSI-2 connection for my Nikon LS 2000 scanner. If I had known the USB transfer would be that slow, I would have just bought an external SCSI drive.
ARrgh! I would have recommended buying a FireWire or USB 2.0 interface card and loaned you a drive ... I have several in enclosures that support both interfaces. The interface cards are available for $30-$50. You can even get a combined card (usually 2 FireWire and 3 USB 2.0 ports) for around $60, IIRC.
If I were you, I'd plan to add one of them to the system hardware. USB 1.1 is way too slow for multi Gbyte data transfer needs. FireWire (400Kbps) would have done 33Gbytes in about 25 minutes.
Godfrey
