HD Replaced-How long to restore?

I just got my iMac back and am restoring using Migration Assistant. I've got a Firewire 800 connection and the progress bar shows 8 hours to restore about 500GB on the new 1TB drive. Is this normal? The iMac is a 2.8 i7 with 16GB RAM.

OK, then the drive should be correctly prepped. I only asked because new drives usually come formatted for PCs. Although you can copy Mac files to them, the transfers will be slower than when you use a normal Mac format. But in your case you're just copying a whole lot of stuff. And, all those small system files actually slow the whole process down. Also, I think the hard drives are 5400 RPM. Don't know how fast your FW drive is.
If they installed Mountain Lion normally, then you will have a Recovery HD. You can find out in Disk Utility by enabling it to show invisible partitions by first activating the debug menu of DU:
To enable Disk Utility's debug option copy and paste this command in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1
Press RETURN.

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