The potential problems with technology
Feb. 4th, 2008 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eveglassAfter debating long and hard with myself, I decided to buy a USB key to keep my computer backups, because I found that backing up to CD took up too much time, too much space, and too many of my computer's resources while it was happening. In fact, I hadn't backed up my computer since last July (I know, I know... bad technie, no cookie).
So today I bought a Kingston 2 Gig USB DataTraveller USB key. The guy at Concordia's computer store assured me it was a good brand. I've used USB keys before, and I remember them being quite fast, at least in terms of downloads onto my computer.
So why is it that it's taking nearly 2 hours to upload 2 gigs worth of data onto this USB key?
That's about 20 k a second, when my computer (and the packaging) assures me it should be able to do up to 480 meg a second in my high-speed USB drive.
On the one hand, I'm only going to be using this once a month, and I can still do other stuff on my computer while it's uploading. On the other hand, it's somewhat vexing that my brand-new toy isn't living up to expectations.
Edited to add: Hm... it seems the download rates are as speedy as I remember from my friend's USB key; it's just the upload speeds that are hellishly slow.
So today I bought a Kingston 2 Gig USB DataTraveller USB key. The guy at Concordia's computer store assured me it was a good brand. I've used USB keys before, and I remember them being quite fast, at least in terms of downloads onto my computer.
So why is it that it's taking nearly 2 hours to upload 2 gigs worth of data onto this USB key?
That's about 20 k a second, when my computer (and the packaging) assures me it should be able to do up to 480 meg a second in my high-speed USB drive.
On the one hand, I'm only going to be using this once a month, and I can still do other stuff on my computer while it's uploading. On the other hand, it's somewhat vexing that my brand-new toy isn't living up to expectations.
Edited to add: Hm... it seems the download rates are as speedy as I remember from my friend's USB key; it's just the upload speeds that are hellishly slow.
