Backup: does it always take this lon

I decided to backup my Zen Xtra the other day.
My Desktop system is a Gig Pentium 4, and as it only had USB support, I added a card to provide USB 2 support for faster transfers.
Hooked up my Zen Xtra to the USB 2 port and started Mediasource. The only option I could find to backup my music and audiobook tracks on my Zen, was the Sync function. I selected Manual Sync and the option to only move files in one direction from the Zen to the PC.
To my surprise, this backup operation took about 3 hours straight. I had approximately 9300 files on the Zen, occupying almost 40 Gigs of space.
It is normal to take this long to transfer all the files to the PC (using USB 2)? Or maybe it was slow because I chose a 'sync' function (although there was really no syncing happening), instead of backup (which I could not find in Mediasource)

All sync is really doing is just a mass transfer, but for whatever reason it seems to add a substantial overhead to the transfer. With USB2 operating at say a normal 5Mb/s it should have copied in just over 2 hours.
I would recommend not using sync in future, and using just the normal transfer say in MediaSource. There are some settings in MediaSource you'll want to change to give you the best ordered collection back on your PC, and these are covered in the backup section of my Nomad Primer.

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