On that 40MB/s HDD, do you have a model number?
I might be interested in trying one since the best I've ever gotten out of
mine is about 20MB/s and more typically around 16MB/s. My best guess is the
limits of the HDD USB interface. The HDD itself is plenty fast to do better.
That is if I pulled it from the box and hooked up as an IDE.
Those claims all over the box it came in just are not true. After much
digging, I found some online ads that capped it around 28MB/s. Still, I have
never achieved that speed even.

When USB2 was out, there were many posts about the speed issue, especially
from those who had already been using firewire and most posted they were
sticking with the firewire because it was much faster. I have no personal
experience. Does anyone know if firewire has such preset sharing of
bandwidth? Or what the real world expectations of firewire 400 or firewire
800 are?
Norman
"Mike M" wrote in message
...
A USB 2.0 port will operate as a USB 2.0 port provided the necessary USB
2.0 drivers are installed. Much of what Norman said has no relevance to
your problem other than that like Norman I admit to being surprised that
your mp3 player requires a USB 2.0 connection to allow it to be charged as
the voltages and current are the same regardless of whether the port is
USB 1, 1.1 or 2.0.

The difference between USB 1.0/1.1 and 2.0 is their speed with USB 1.1
rated at a maximum of 12Mbps and USB 2.0 480Mbps. That 480Mbps is not
really achievable is immaterial but 120Mbps is and that is ten times
faster than the theoretical maximum of USB 1.1. Note that some USB 2.0
Flash drives can hit 30MB/s (about 240Mbps) and some hard drives a little
more (40MB/s) but transfer rates depend on what other activity there is on
the PCI bus as well as the file make up, small files being slower to
transfer than large.
--
Mike Maltby



Dapper Dan wrote:

Thanks Mike. Just an additional question because I'm not sure if I
understood Norman's point. If I should go the PCMIA route, will it
perform to USB 2.0 or will it be limited to the USB 1.1 speeds.

Thanks again.