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  • Sep 16, 2008, 09:20 AM
    oliheyj
    Slow transfer to external hard drive
    I am getting about 1 mbps from my Dell inspiron 640 laptop when my wife's old desktop will do it at 2.7 mbps. I have USB 2.0 ports and the external drive is 7200 rpm
    Any ideas?
    Thanks.
  • Sep 16, 2008, 01:41 PM
    seahwk83
    Really need to know the system specs for both, such as processor, how much memory
  • Sep 17, 2008, 08:38 AM
    oliheyj
    Ok sorry, my laptop has the Centrino Duo CPU T5300 @ 1.73GHz, 2GB RAM, 80GB hard drive (about 1/2 full) I am mainly concerned with making the transfer on this faster. The desktop has a single core CPU, 750MB of RAM, and I think a 40GB hard drive.
  • Sep 17, 2008, 12:10 PM
    seahwk83
    Your specs out match the desktop obviously

    One would think laptop would be faster, is the laptop using vista?
    You may have a lot more system resources being taken up by vista itself

    If you do use vista, there are a couple of things to reduce resources but to honest, youi would not know any difference until you would attempt to free up resources

    Here is a link with some "Tips" on speeding up PC if interested
    https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/comput...rs-233870.html

    Hopefully others can weigh in on the subject about the transfer speeds

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