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fred 04-07-2013 08:32 AM

Slow copy speeds
 
Hi,

I'm not sure if this is normal for a computer this old but it does seem awfully slow.

Backing up a 2009 13" MBP 2.26GHz Core2duo to a 1tb portable drive. It is copying over at about 5mb/sec. Does this seem right? Its going to take about 18hrs for 350gb

thx

dnanian 04-07-2013 08:36 AM

USB? Have you added the drive into the Spotlight preference pane's "Privacy" tab? Any Antivirus involved?

fred 04-07-2013 08:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnanian (Post 32332)
USB? Have you added the drive into the Spotlight preference pane's "Privacy" tab? Any Antivirus involved?

Hi Dave, it's been going a half hour and it's moved up to 20Mb/sec so that is slow but a lot better. I've just added it to the privacy pane now but it didn't seem to make much difference. Yes USB.

Is 20MB/sec what you'd call normal for a 5400 portable drive?


Thanks for the quick reply btw

dnanian 04-07-2013 04:05 PM

Yes, that's quite fast for USB.


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