Seagate Ex.HD

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Dell L600r,512ram,winXPpro,
I have a seagate ex HD 320g connected via 1.1usb,after transfering numerous
pictures to this drive i wanted to defrag it....I use Diskeeper lite which
works great on my internal drive.
the defragmentation is real slow on the ex drive and when i try to stop the
defrag it locks the computer up bigtime(this is the only time i have ever
seen a glitch with XP)
I have to power cycle the computer to reboot....I took the drive and hooked
it up to my son's Acer laptop which is about a year old and it defraged real
quick with no issues but he is running usb2.0
could the issue be with my older Dell 1.1 usb speed and or processor speed,
I have tried contacting Diskeeper but have had no responce.....probably wont
get one since im using their free version,any help would be much
appreciated....thx in advance...
note:I do have a pci 2.0usb adapter coming to speed things up
 
Doubt any hds would run on 1.1usb,2.0 has been geared toward hardware
for 4 or more years now....

"sulaco" wrote:

> Dell L600r,512ram,winXPpro,
> I have a seagate ex HD 320g connected via 1.1usb,after transfering numerous
> pictures to this drive i wanted to defrag it....I use Diskeeper lite which
> works great on my internal drive.
> the defragmentation is real slow on the ex drive and when i try to stop the
> defrag it locks the computer up bigtime(this is the only time i have ever
> seen a glitch with XP)
> I have to power cycle the computer to reboot....I took the drive and hooked
> it up to my son's Acer laptop which is about a year old and it defraged real
> quick with no issues but he is running usb2.0
> could the issue be with my older Dell 1.1 usb speed and or processor speed,
> I have tried contacting Diskeeper but have had no responce.....probably wont
> get one since im using their free version,any help would be much
> appreciated....thx in advance...
> note:I do have a pci 2.0usb adapter coming to speed things up
>
 
Actually this computer is either a 99 or 2000 model it was originally loaded
with 98se....but surprisingly it transfers data pretty quick to the seagate
exdrive....like i said the only issue with it so far is the Diskeeper locking
it up,I'll find out soon enough if the 2.0 usb solves the issue

check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#USB_3.0
 
Andrew E. wrote:
> Doubt any hds would run on 1.1usb,2.0 has been geared toward hardware
> for 4 or more years now....
>
> "sulaco" wrote:
>
>> Dell L600r,512ram,winXPpro,
>> I have a seagate ex HD 320g connected via 1.1usb,after transfering numerous
>> pictures to this drive i wanted to defrag it....I use Diskeeper lite which
>> works great on my internal drive.
>> the defragmentation is real slow on the ex drive and when i try to stop the
>> defrag it locks the computer up bigtime(this is the only time i have ever
>> seen a glitch with XP)
>> I have to power cycle the computer to reboot....I took the drive and hooked
>> it up to my son's Acer laptop which is about a year old and it defraged real
>> quick with no issues but he is running usb2.0
>> could the issue be with my older Dell 1.1 usb speed and or processor speed,
>> I have tried contacting Diskeeper but have had no responce.....probably wont
>> get one since im using their free version,any help would be much
>> appreciated....thx in advance...
>> note:I do have a pci 2.0usb adapter coming to speed things up
>>

USB 1 IS the reason its slow! A defrag is an intensive I/O operation and
using USB1 will take ages - specially on an ancient computer.

Your new USB2 connection will speed it up, but the slow processor will
still hold it back - if its year 2000 then its a Pentium 2 or 3 probably.
 
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