Transferring data to 2.5 hd.

say i want to copy like 20 gigs of samples/sounds to my 2.5 hd in the mpc from my mac i haven't hooked up my cpu yet cause im grounding all my recepticals in the room. Can i do this from the usb when i connect to cpu and if so will it take a long time.
Thanks-

maybe i shoulda took a look at pg.112 1st paragraph
my fault.

it does tell you in the manual that you can connect the 2500 to the pc and transfer files that way, so well done for finding that!

however, what it does not tell you, is that the USB1.1 spec is very slow! to do 20GB of samples, would take you ages man, not worth it, get a usb2.0 laptop hard drive enclosure, just for the initial download of the 20GB it'd be worth it!

here's a rough estimation:

USB1.1 allows a maximum of 12Mbits/second that means 12 million bits.

there are 8 bits in 1 byte.

in 20GB (gigabytes) there are (20,000,000,000 x = 160,000,000,000 bits

so:

160,000,000,000/12,000,000= 13,334seconds

which is roughtly 3.7hours! that is a 'best case' scenario, so you've been warned!


ps you could just leave it going overnight i suppose.

Hi there.

I got my 80GB HD last night, so spent ages copying my wavs over. It took about 2 hours to do 30GB. The windows progress bar was all over the shop as usual, suggesting I had 8 hours to wait at one point! So ignore that.

I think that the amount of time it actually takes depends on the size of the files you are copying.

I found something out the hardway last night as well. Being new to my MPC (only had it 2 days), I thought you'd have to format the drive using windows. But don't do it!!!
You can format the hard drive in the Utility Screen from the LOAD menu. Much quicker, plus it works!!!