How long should it take to transfer info??

[edward-k]

I finally got around to setting up my new I-Mac 24" 2.8 tonight. After a trip to best buy to pick up a Firewire cable, i ran thru the setup assistant and answered 'yes' when asked if I wanted to transfer info from my old mac (a Power PC G5 2.5 x 2). I ran thru the steps and it seemed to start the transfer..howver after coming back a few minuites later, I noticed the time to finish at 5+ hours? Can this be right? The time is clicking down appropriatly though... My G5 hard drive was about 70% full (160gig). Just seems like an awful long time, I am tempted to start over but i'm afraid to stop it mid-process? Any thoughts? THanks Ed

[DesignerOnMac]

I finally got around to setting up my new I-Mac 24" 2.8 tonight. After a trip to best buy to pick up a Firewire cable, i ran thru the setup assistant and answered 'yes' when asked if I wanted to transfer info from my old mac (a Power PC G5 2.5 x 2). I ran thru the steps and it seemed to start the transfer..howver after coming back a few minuites later, I noticed the time to finish at 5+ hours? Can this be right? The time is clicking down appropriatly though... My G5 hard drive was about 70% full (160gig). Just seems like an awful long time, I am tempted to start over but i'm afraid to stop it mid-process? Any thoughts? THanks Ed

I only had an 80GB drive to do migration assistant with, and yes it took a long time! You have to be patient, remember there are 100,000's of folders in OSX that need to be transfered, etc.

[Leon Kowalski]

Maximum FW400 transfer rate is about 180 GB/hour -- but I have no idea how
quickly (slowly?) a G5 can move files from the hard drive to the firewire port.

...5 hours sounds high, but not entirely ridiculous,

LK

[adamfishercox]

The longest it's taken me was 2 hours. The shortest was an hour and a half. This was with 40-50 GB of data.

[edward-k]

It did end up taking the whole 5 hours for 120gigs, everything seems to have transfered over fine. Thanks for your input.
Ed