Windows 7 and USB 2.0

[rickp227]

I have upgraded my Sony VAIO VGN-FZ410E to Wndows 7 Pro and have had a few driver problems, but it seems that the transfer speeds to my external hard drive via USB is very slow. It took 8 hours to backup my personal data, pix, MP3's, etc. to my external drive. It used about 50 GB on the external drive. I usually did backups under Vista over night and never really noticed the speed. This seems real slow to me though.
Any thoughts?

 

[JackNaylorPE]

USB is very slow. Suggest an e-SATA connection

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153071&cm_re=BlacX-_-17-153-071-_-Product

 

[rickp227]

USB is very slow. Suggest an e-SATA connection

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153071&cm_re=BlacX-_-17-153-071-_-Product

My external drive is a Seagate FreeAgent with USB 2.0, how could I use e-SATA. I am not familiar with it.

Thanks.

 

[The_Prophecy]

The absolute maximum transfer speed of USB 2.0 is 60MBps. Minus overhead, you're only going to get about 51 - 52MBps max sustained read/write. Given the amount of data you transferred, 8 hours is actually pretty good.

Also given that you have a Freeagent drive (most if not all of these are sealed units if memory serves), you're not going to be able to use eSATA as jack suggested, unless your Freeagent drive itself supports the eSATA connection.

 

[Guest]

50 gigabytes at 50 MBps should take about a half hour.