Why does my external HD take so long to load?

[knobtwiddler]

I have a Seagate 2TB external HD formatted as MS-DOS FAT and it takes a few minutes to load on my macbook. It loads up quickly on the imac which it was formatted on. I've never had a HD do this. Any way to speed it up?

 

[MacTribe]

If you havent got much on it yet, try re-formatting on the slow Mac and see if it improves anything.

Does it have to be in FAT32 format?

 

[knobtwiddler]

I use FAT32 so I can hook it up to my PS3