Slow file transfer via IEEE 1394 Firewire to external drive

External Since: Dec 16, 2006 Posts: 3

I'm getting only about 1.39 MB/sec to my external 3.5" 7200 RPM drive, off
of IEEE 1394 Firewire connected by PCMCIA. I don't think this is normal. ANy
suggestions on how to speed it up? I'm transferring files from another
external drive connected by USB 2.0, but that doesn't seem to be the
bottleneck because transferring to my internal drive is at least four times
as fast.

External Since: Nov 29, 2006 Posts: 26

The average speed that I have been seeing on RTM is about 11 MB/s, for some
reason it is moving files very slowly. I occasionally see bursts off higher
transfer rates, but not often. :^(

"krypticide" wrote:

> I'm getting only about 1.39 MB/sec to my external 3.5" 7200 RPM drive, off
> of IEEE 1394 Firewire connected by PCMCIA. I don't think this is normal. ANy
> suggestions on how to speed it up? I'm transferring files from another
> external drive connected by USB 2.0, but that doesn't seem to be the
> bottleneck because transferring to my internal drive is at least four times
> as fast.
>