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Can't play music from USB-connected hard drive
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I've had my MBP about two weeks and have been getting things set up. I have two USB hard drives that I used on my Windows laptop attached through a USB-2 hub. Both drives are USB-2. I have tried copying files from both hard drives, and they are ridiculously slow. One 54mb file took nearly an hour to copy to my internal hard drive, while a 60mb file from the other drive took around 20 minutes. I have music files on one drive which keep gapping when I try to play them, which I thought was a problem with the player, but now it appears to be because of a slow connection. According to the System Profiler, the speed of both of these drives should be "up to 480 mb/sec." One is formatted NTFS, while the other his FAT32. What am I doing wrong?
(Last edited by Kyle76; May 21, 2008 at 01:12 PM.
(Reason:Clarify problem))
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Sounds like it might be either a USB1 drive, or your computer only supports USB1. How large are the files?
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Deleted due to clarified original post.
(Last edited by Kyle76; May 21, 2008 at 01:12 PM.
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I would like to add that the hard drive problem has occurred sometime in the past week or so. When I originally connected these hard drives to my MBP, they operated fine, and I was able to play my music files with no problems. Can anyone suggest a solution?
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OS X performance with FAT32/NTFS drives is generally poor, but not that poor. I'd take the hub out and plug them directly into the machine.
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I tried plugging in directly, but the result was the same. Could I have compromised the drives by disconnecting them without ejecting them?
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I'd like to say yes, but I can't wrap my head around how corruption would cause poor transfer rates.
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Originally Posted by Kyle76 
I would like to add that the hard drive problem has occurred sometime in the past week or so. When I originally connected these hard drives to my MBP, they operated fine, and I was able to play my music files with no problems. Can anyone suggest a solution?
A simple restart seems to have this drive back to normal. I was under the mistaken impression that Macs don't benefit from restarts the way that Windows machines often do. Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions. I'll now "Eject before disconnect." Hopefully, that will prevent a recurrence.
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