problem with external hard drive

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theposse

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Oct 16, 2007

• #1

I have recently bought an external hard drive "my book" 320 GB /7200.
It works fine but when i went to put some of my films on it,it took for ever to transfer the files i mean 6 hours for 10GBs.
i have an imac G4 1gb ram.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Scottie

 

odinsride

macrumors 65816

• Oct 16, 2007

• #2

Do you have any usb 2.0 ports? If not that's probably the reason

 

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spawn135

macrumors newbie

• Oct 16, 2007

• #3

odinsride said:

Do you have any usb 2.0 ports? If not that's probably the reason

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I have a G4 too, and I know it's not USB 2.0.
I believe it is USB 1.1.

That is the problem why it's so slow. But hey, at least it is backward compatible.

 

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theposse

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Oct 16, 2007

• #4

thanks

thanks a lot for your help now i need a new computer lol.
Scotie