How do you transfer big files?

this makes me cracy!

transfering with usb cable takes ages
(only 10gb takes so long that windows doesn't show the remaining time, i gave up after 5 hours at 20% datatransfer)

then i tried to put out the internal harddisk, connected it to a usb2/ide adapter and transfered about 100gb in 6 hours w/o any problems. then i replaced the harddisk into the mpc and guess what....

mpc can't write to harddisk, can't change names etc... only loading is good (but a bit slower as normal)...

tried the whole procedure twice (on windows and on macosx), same results....

so how the hell should i transfer lots of keygroup programms, samples etc....?

it seems the internal hd is relative useless until they fix the usb problem...

btw: i formated the whole harddisk on the mpc BEFORE i connected it to the usb/ide adapter. also i did reinitialisize the mpc (ERASE button at startup).

dreadnutz wrote: 100gb in 6 hours w/o any problems.

I suppose you replaced the original 80GB with something else?

yeah, 500gb hd.

but useless...

it would be interesting to know then what happens if you put the original WD 80GB back in

this shouldn't be the problem.

the 500gb harddisk works perfect, it's identified from mpc and computer with 500gb.
but saving, changing names etc... only when you transfer everything over the usb cable, otherwise it's buggy.

i suppose it has something to do with the OS from the mpc.
a computer OS writes every access detection files to the harddisk.
perhaps the mpc OS does the same.
have looked on the windows explorer (marked "show hidden files") but i can't see anything.

there is only one folder called "clipboard" after formating w/o any content...

so far i have about 40gb transfered (the last days over usb cable).
let the mpc running the whole afternoon.
but that's not the best solution for cpu/screen...

there has been an issue with slow usb transfer:
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=110034
transferring 40GB took about 10Hrs...

you suggest that with OS2, the problem has become worse...
will check this out on my 5K

acoustiventure wrote:
will check this out on my 5K

checked
same slow usb speed as OS 1.02
400MB=6min
4GB=60min
40GB=10Hrs



same but not worse

I tried to find out if there was a difference in speed between usb1 and usb2 cable. I didn't get a clear answer but I bought a usb2 cable for the 5000 and the speed seemed fine. Dunno, can anybody clarify this since the 5000 is usb2.