[edhats]

Hey so I just signed on here, looks like a good forum.

So, my question is how long should it take to copy 4GB from a DVD to my desktop? I seem to remember the process being a lot quicker. 20 minutes makes me think something's wrong. I have 20 GB of space available. I quit all applications, besides Safari and still 20 min.

More general questions:
at what point does available space become an issue? (Is the copy speed the same if I have 1 GB available or if I have 150 GB available? I remember this was an issue with OS 9.

And if one of the processors hangs, how do I know that it's hung up?

Thanks

[OreoCookie]

What's the matter? 4*1024/1200 \approx 3.4 MB/s which looks ok. Not terribly fast, but ok. My dvd drive on my Linux pc maxes out at about 4.5 MB/s with DVD-Rs.

Available space becomes an issue when you run out of it If you have a gig or two to spare, it should be enough.

[ViviMaster]

processor speed really wont have much to do with your file transfer rates. more the less depends on what kinda drives it is and how fast it is.