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Quick external HD question

  • 22-03-2007 8:16pm
    #1
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭


    I recently bought a 320 Gig external HD, gonna put all my TV shows etc on it. Its USB 2 and after doing some reading up apparently USB can do 480 Megs a second give or take. However mines only doin just under 2 meg a second. anyway I can speed things up?


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  • #2
    themole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭themole


    bombidol wrote:
    I recently bought a 320 Gig external HD, gonna put all my TV shows etc on it. Its USB 2 and after doing some reading up apparently USB can do 480 Megs a second give or take. However mines only doin just under 2 meg a second. anyway I can speed things up?

    While USB 2.0 can indeed do that speed, its unlikely the interface to the hd can do that. Also 480MegaBits = 60mega bytes.
    You wont get a transfer anyway close to that.


  • #3
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    Nothin i can do to speed things up?


  • #4
    mathias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭mathias


    However mines only doin just under 2 meg a second. anyway I can speed things up?

    from what to what ? From the external to/from your PC , if so , then maybe your pc , or the USB port you are using on your pc , is not USB2 but USB1.1 , even if they are USB2 , there can be issues using the main USB motherboard connections as they are all shared and some are low power.

    For big external drives , a separate USB2 card like this , can really speed things up , they are cheap too.

    http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=109140

    Using one of these you should get way more throughput.


  • #5
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    From a new PC to an Argosy External 320 Gb. its just slowish. Ive noticed that the speed is around 5 or 6 meg a second when transfering from SATA drives to the USB though, its about 2 meg a second from an IDE.


  • #6
    FastFullBack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭FastFullBack


    Hey,

    Can anyone recommend a good website to buy External HDD. I know the usual komplett.ie and pixmania.ie, but are there any other cheaper/ lower delivery cost websites that anyone can recommend.

    Thanks
    Tim


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  • #7
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    www.ibood.com just keep an eye on it, something will pop up.


  • #8
    slave1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    aldi, this coming Thurs, 320gig for €105, it's USB and SATA


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