Formatted on XP - EXTREMELY SLOW read/write on the Mac !!!!

Man this iPod is wack!! Im using the iPod mini in Disk Mode to transfer bits (updaters since my XP machine is NEVER connected to the net) back and forth between my PowerBook and my XP Intel based machine. Obviously i set up and formatted the iPod Mini on the XP machine.
Observation, file read/write times are unacceptably SLOW on Mac and the PC. Did Apple deliberately make this thing unusable in this situation? This thing has a transfer speed as if it were connected to a USB 1.1 port but it is NOT, on any of my machines. I format my USB Flash Drive (SanDisk Cruzer Titanium) on the same XP machine, use the same ports and it's read/write times are at least 5 times faster than the Mini !!!
When i format and setup the iPod Mini on the Mac then install MacDrive on the PC astonishingly the read/write times significantly increase on BOTH Mac and the PC. As i suggested i think there is something drastically wrong with Apple's PC iPod setup, there is NO way my other devices formatted on the PC have such abysmal performance . Man i click on a folder in the Finder of the PC formatted iPod and it take about 3 seconds until the files inside are displayed...this is also the case on the PC.
Anyone else experienced this?
I was going to buy another iPod specifically for transferring data between my Mac's and my colleagues PC's, but there is no way i will with such severely degraded read/write performance.
Best

Apparently this is not a single isolated case.
Scott Aronian Posts :
"On Mac FAT32 Format Slower Than HFS "
My 60GB iPod came in Windows FAT32 format which I liked since I could use it in disk mode on both Mac & Windows. However it seemed slow to start playing video and when switching between video files.
I did some timing tests and on the Mac FAT32 was much slower than HFS.
FAT32
Start playing movie = 12s
Stop movie and restart at same location = between 12-30s
HFS
Start playing movie = 5s
Stop movie and restart at same location = between 6s
If you have a Mac and your new 5G iPod is formatted for Windows, you may want to use the iPod Updated to restore and make the drive HFS.
There is NO such performance problems with USB Flash drives when formatted to Fat32 on PC's i have tested many and they perform similar on BOTH platforms.
Something fishy goin on here

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