Hey - About how long will it take to copy approx. 25 gigs of files from an internal hard drive to an external hard drive connected via usb 1.1 ?? I appreciate the replies... Thanks! -B

A very very long time... approximately 277 minutes i think. Correct me if i'm wrong though... Matt matt@bbcomputing.co.uk www.bbcomputing.co.uk

a very long time @ usb 1.1... vague, i know, but i only have a 2.0 external...the maximum transfer is 1.5 megabytes per second for 1.1, but you won't see 1.5 @ usb 2.0 speeds, it is very noticably faster i just did a 2 gig transfer in 2 minutes and 47 seconds, so 25 gigs would take about 35 minutes on usb 2.0...usb 2 is 40x faster than 1.1...multiply 40 and 35 = 1400 minutes = 23 hours...that's an approximate DFI lanparty 875p-t LGA775 2.8 @ 3.4 2 x 512 Geil Ultra Platinum PC4000 @ DDR490 128 meg Radeon 9800 Pro DUAL 36 GIG WD Raptors RAID0 21 in. 19.8 viewable Sony Trinitron 4 Mbps cable

snakeandcrane, The speed of your machine (1.5 ghz celeron), amount of RAM, as well as the number of files contained within th 25 GB will have a conspicuous impact. Meaning the faster the machine, the more the memory, and the fewer the number of files, the faster the transfer. That said, my guess is over 6 hours (perhaps 7) to complete the transfer. I transfered a half GB in about 9 minutes. Incidentally, my benchmarks on several machines that I performed a while back indicated that USB 2.0 is about 11 - 12 times faster. - Sandor Character is simply habit long continued. - Plutarch (46 - 120 C.E.)