Painfully slow backup

[patso23]

Originally Posted by dnanian

We're using standard calls to write to the drive; they go as fast as they can. If you're getting super slow speeds, it's because something is causing that -- although it's hard to judge Finder vs. a SD copy because the SD! copy is going to start out copying a zillion teeny files, and you likely streamed something large...

I'm having the same problem. I'm using one of the Lacie USB2 drives (the FA Porsche designed model) and am currently only getting a copy speed of around 2 MB/s.....

I'm also using a macbook pro, and I'm sure that the drive is hispeed because in the system profiler it is listed as:
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec

What could be causing this issue? Thanks.

Patso