Firewire 800 data transfer too slow on Macbook Pro Unibody and Win7 RC
- by dtmunir
I'm trying to back up some data on an external hard drive and am finding the transfer rate to be unbearably slow.
My environment is as follows:
Macbook Pro Unibody (late 2008)
Windows 7 RC, 64-bit
Lacie, rugged 500GB portable hard drive
I have tried using a number of methods including simple copying in Explorer, Teracopy, Crashplan, and Windows backup. I am averaging around 1MB/s which seems terribly slow.
How do I identify what is the cause of this slow file transfer, and then how do I go about addressing the issue.