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oceanicitl
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How long will it take to restore 185gb data from a USB drive to a Macbook Pro?
Kicked it off using a command in terminal at 10.19am.
No prize for the winner apart from the pleasure of getting it right.
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l3v1ck
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14:02
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HeatherKay
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Via USB? On a Mac? Let's see...
17:37, 23/8/2012.
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jonbwfc
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I did a similar size transfer over the weekend and it took between 3 and 4 hours, so I'll say 13:50. Jon
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oceanicitl
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It will be less than 3 hours that's all I'm saying  _________________Still the official cheeky one
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l3v1ck
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Oi. No clues
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oceanicitl
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1 HOUR 44 MINS
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Spreadie
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30MB per second over USB? 
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big_D
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My old Toshiba usb drive peaked out at 43MB/s, and that was on an old Athlon machine - the first Intel iMacs were deliberately crippled, to run at about 1/3 their normal speed.
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leeds_manc
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jonbwfc
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Conspiracy theory. The performance was rubbish, and of course that was to try to convince people to use firewire instead so Apple could make all that licensing money, not just because they didn't do it very well.
Jon
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HeatherKay
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^^ This. It's why I'm prejudiced against using USB for mass storage devices beyond thumb drives. Firewire beats the undercrackers off USB file transfers on every Mac I've had. (This appears to have changed with the kit Apple have been selling in the past couple of years, though not by much if Caz's experience is to be believed.) _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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jonbwfc
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There are of course many issues which define the speed you get data off a drive, of which the notional or indeed actual speed of the interface is only one...
Jon
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tombolt
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Doesn't FireWire have a dedicated chip and USB shares the CPU? Thought I read that somewhere as to the reason for the performance difference.
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oceanicitl
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I find the speed to the USB fobs is a lot worse. I didn't have a big enough firewire device at work but was in no rush anyway. Just meant my work mac was out of action longer _________________Still the official cheeky one
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