It's a Christmas Miracle!!!

[Derek McNelly]

Christmas morning, I open my gifts, and inside lies a shiny new iPod.

With no firewire cable.

And me with no USB 2.0 connection.

4.98 GB of music to transfer.

I thought it would take at least two hours.

It took a whopping 68 MINUTES!!!

I just guess it was a Christmas miracle!

USB 1.1 moved almost 5 Gigabytes of data at 1.24 megabytes/sec.

Praise be!

[jhollington]

Congratulations on your new iPod.

The transfer speed is not that surprising, actually.... USB 1.1 isn't really as slow as most people seem to think it is. It's certainly slow compared to USB 2.0 and FireWire, but it's not like it's a serial port speed or anything.

USB 1.1 is 11 megabits per second, which means that your maximum theoretical throughput should be approximately 1.25 Megabytes per second.

People seem to expect USB 1.1 to run at serial-port speeds, but it's really not that bad (USB 1.0, on the other hand, actually did, but there are very few devices that still use that standard).

[brian85b]

geeze one of the scanners here at work still uses serial port its crazy

[Kristiano]

Huh?

[Derek McNelly]

Originally posted by jhollington
Congratulations on your new iPod.

The transfer speed is not that surprising, actually.... USB 1.1 isn't really as slow as most people seem to think it is. It's certainly slow compared to USB 2.0 and FireWire, but it's not like it's a serial port speed or anything.

USB 1.1 is 11 megabits per second, which means that your maximum theoretical throughput should be approximately 1.25 Megabytes per second.

People seem to expect USB 1.1 to run at serial-port speeds, but it's really not that bad (USB 1.0, on the other hand, actually did, but there are very few devices that still use that standard).

I guess I'm from the old school of data transfer. I see 11 mbps as fast!

I'm used to the .75 mbps cap on flash memory (At least on my MuVo), and even moreso, I actually prefer that slower transfer rate to USB 2.0.

I guess it's just a security thing to me, but when it takes a little while for data to transfer, I feel like it's ALL being transferred. That helps me sleep easy.

Of course, I'm weird.

[ipodphoto30]

great for you.

[Young GE]

yeh its very fast, i transfered 21 GB in about 1 hour 45 mins.

[newmie66]

congrats!, what kind of ipod did you get