Copying to USB 2.0 drive?? it was never this slow before!!?? HELP
hey all,
i have two external hardrives that i use primaraly as scratch disks (for final cut) or or archieving my user folder. today i went to do my monthly backup, and it was extremely slow. The drive i am backing up to is a Lacie 160 gig USB 2.0 (porche design version). i dont ever remember it being this slow. The counter said it would take aprox. 8 hours to copy 13.6 gigs. it used to take about 20 minutes. Im usually good at figuring out these problems but this one really stumped me. any suggestions? any feed back would be great!
Thanks,
Danny
no not at all. i have about 120 gb left on that disk. though i decided to restart and it seems to be normal again. i am still quite curious what caused it though.
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