Slow File Transfer

[Jason_Bryan]

Over the last few weeks the speed at which files transfer from my iMac to my external firewire drive seems to have slowed down. It takes about 2 minutes per GB. Can anyone suggest a way of increasing the speed at which they transfer.
The external drive is only half full and connected by Firewire 400

 

[killerrobot]

Just curious have you/can you transfer files using the USB?
My USB 2 transfers about a Gig/min. That would give an idea if its the external or problems with your FW connection.

 

[cometa]

disk optimizations utilities

my guess would be your hard drive instead of usb or firewire. your disks may just be getting a bit messy at the directory level... try running disk warrior, drive genius, or something similar; they should get your hard drive speeds back to normal.

 

[Jason_Bryan]

Thanks for the ideas. I don't have any 3rd party software for checking / fixing my drives. I have run Disk Utilities, and they say the disks are OK. The drive is Firewire only so I can't check it against USB.