Import straight into a macbook/upload time

My 17" Powerbook has two FW ports, one 400, one 800, and two USB 2.0 ports.

I plug my media drive into the FW800 port, my FS-100 into the FW400 port, my Canon Rebel XT into one USB port, my mouse into the other USB port, with the PCMCIA port open for P2 cards.
 
mico said:
Wasn't there some talk about dragging and dropping the last txt. file seperately where people were getting better transfer times?
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Actually, yes, I've heard that too. That if you drag the lastclip and contents together, it takes forever, but if you drag the lastclip by itself and let it copy instantly, and then drag the contents folder over, it's very fast.

Perhaps one of you guys with the slow transfers could try that and let us know if it's legit or just internet old wives' tales?
 
Barry_Green said:
Actually, yes, I've heard that too. That if you drag the lastclip and contents together, it takes forever, but if you drag the lastclip by itself and let it copy instantly, and then drag the contents folder over, it's very fast.

Perhaps one of you guys with the slow transfers could try that and let us know if it's legit or just internet old wives' tales?
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That's interesting. I dont own a P2 store but next time I rent one I will definitely try that, although after my last experience, I am more inclined to rent a few extra P2 cards next time.
 
BenB said:
My 17" Powerbook has two FW ports, one 400, one 800, and two USB 2.0 ports.

I plug my media drive into the FW800 port, my FS-100 into the FW400 port, my Canon Rebel XT into one USB port, my mouse into the other USB port, with the PCMCIA port open for P2 cards.
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Ben, out of curiousity, what sort of transfer times do you get from the FS-100 to external drives via the G4 PB?
 
I just ran this test twice:

P2 store > mac book> rev drive copy via finder (last clip txt, then contents) via finder

P2 Store>mac book > rev drive Via P2 genie

In both cases everything connected by USB

Finder copy came in 5 minutes for 1 "4 gig" p2 volume

P2 genie came in at 5:25 to copy the same volume

P2 genie copy to a OWC pocket drive via USB2 comes in at 5:50

Finally a drag n drop copy contents and last clip text together to a rev drive comes in @ 11 minutes
 
My test:

5 gigs left on an old 75 gig 7200rpm drive connected to firewire 400 port on a macbook pro 2.33 core2duo

hvx200 with one full 4gig card connected to firewire 800 port on same laptop

Contents and lastclip txt dragged and dropped together on to 75gig HD - 7 min 45 sec

Trashed contents folder and lastclip txt off the 75gig HD because not enough space was left to do test transfer again

Lastclip txt dragged first /seperately, then contents folder on to hd - 4 min 55 sec

Since both firewire ports are on same bus and 75gig hd drive was almost completely full this may have slowed down the transfer somewhat.

But it seems that dragging the lastclip txt seperately helped alot.
 
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mico said:
My test:

5 gigs left on an old 75 gig 7200rpm drive connected to firewire 400 port on a macbook pro 2.33 core2duo

The last 5 gigs left on a drive are definitley not going to be the fastest 5 gigs on the drive from what I have seen, but still your times are reasonable. FW has better sustained through put than USB which is probably why you see slightly lower times here than what I did with USB. P2 store 2.0 would certainly benefit from a FW 800 port like the PCD 20 does.
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I know the situation I put it through was not ideal but the test was to see, and what was most important, was the difference in transfer times using the lastclip txt seperately or together.

P2 store or no P2 store what the tests tell me is if I'm on a mac I'm going to transfer the lastclip txt file seperately from the contents if I want a sane transfer time.
 
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