Slow transfer speed with Maxtor One Touch II

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Hi everybody - I just hooked up my maxtor one touch II for the first time to my macbook (usb). I formatted it and tried transferring some data... it takes about 3 hours for 6GB to transfer... is this normal? Is there anything I can do to speed it up? I never remember it being this slow with windows.
 
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Aluminum PowerBook G4. 15.2" SUPAH-drive
that's pretty slow.

happened to me once, i just ejected the hd and restarted.
 
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Mac Studio, M1 Max, 32 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD
Is it formatted for FAT32? Likely is. Reformat it for HFS+ and you will see it suddenly speed up to what you would expect.
 
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i dont have no mac's
usb is slower to begin with, but the correct format of the drive will most definately help.
-chris
 

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