Ipod nano 1st gen takes forever to sync

hi all,
I have a 4gb 1st gen nano
compared to my 4th gen ipod photo, syncing with fw or usb, and my ipod touch 4th, the nano takes a long time to sync anything.
for example on the ipod photo, it takes about a minute or a minute and a half to sync 70 songs, same on the ipod touch. On the nano, the same amount of songs can take up to 20min to sync.... whats with that? is there anytrhing i can do to speed it up? the nano is formatted mac, the photo is a windows formatted ipod. but same thing on a pc or mac..
thanks in advanced

Are you using the same cable and USB port to sync each device? It could just be the age of the Nano starting to show. You might want to see if your 1G Nano qualifies under the recall for 1G Nanos.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipodnano_replacement/
B-rock

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