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    Laptop speed while transferring files

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by MKang25, May 19, 2010.

  1. MKang25

    MKang25 NBR Prisoner

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    Is it normal for my MBP to be sluggish when I am transferring large files to my external via firewire?
     
    MKang25, May 19, 2010
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    altecX Notebook Deity

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    Well you are using a 5400 rpm HDD then yes, it will.
     
    altecX, May 19, 2010
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    ygohome Notebook Deity

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    simply put, its going to be slow because your system is busy reading from the HDD to transmit the data to your external drive... while at the same time you are interrupting that process to use your system to perhaps read/write elsewhere to the same HDD. your drives read/write heads are probably flying all over the place trying to keep up with the tasks your throwing at it while its still trying to do the copy.
     
    ygohome, May 19, 2010
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