<LOL> Similar thing happened here. I moved about 18gb of data via USB 1.1 from my old 'puter to the new one, xferring the data to a small LaCie USB 2.0 "pocket" hard drive and then to the new machine. It didn't take near as long probably because I was using a portable disc drive, but it was quite a while nonetheless. Moving the data to the new machine was more a matter of minutes.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: jtainter > Last night I backed up 33.5 GB of photo files from my D drive to a 40 GB Flashtrax. [...] > > 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.
