G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow


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G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow
by Bob Sack on Oct 19, 2009 at 9:29:06 pm

I have an older G-Drive 500 mb drive.

I bought a 1TB G-drive to replace a new, but bad Freeagent Desktop.

When I attached the 1TB G-drive to the 2nd Firewire 400 port on my iMac, and dragged the 170 mb directory to the new 1TB G-drive, the transfer is Exteremely slow. It is indicating it will take 30 hours.

The 500 MB G-drive to Freeagent is 30 minutes.

Is there something I am configuring incorrectly? I love G-drives, but the slow speed is surprising.

Bob

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Re: G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow
by Russ Haskell on Oct 20, 2009 at 5:34:07 pm

I've had two "4th generation" drives with similar speed issues. Repeatedly dropped frames during dv capture to the brand new 1 TB model. Changed my scratch disk to my (90% full) 500 GB and I got no dropped frames.

Contacted G Tech support and they recommended zeroing out the new drive. That, BTW, was a 14 hour process. But after zeroing the new drive, the 500GB model was still 2X fast read/write - as measured by the AJA systems tests and by manually clocking a file transfer. Didn't matter whether I used FW 400 or FW 800, or whether I used a PPC Mac or an Intel Mac…the smaller drive was far faster.

Very disappointing. The first drive was bought directly from G Tech and has gone back for repair. Will have to return the second one.

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Re: G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow
by Bob Sack on Oct 20, 2009 at 5:52:41 pm

Thank you for the response.

I got the drive yesterday from Amazon.Com and now I will ship it back.

G-Tech told me to restart the machine. I did and after 10mb the thing slowed to a crawl.

I tried on 3 different Macs. Same thing.

Not a good sign. I guess I'll try LaCie next. Any other suggestions?

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Re: G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow
by Bob Sack on Oct 20, 2009 at 6:08:20 pm

I just got off the phone with G-Technology. My drive is a Gen 4.

They said that there was a controller problem with the Gen 3, but not the Gen 4. He said it sounded like a controller problem and suggested I return it to Amazon.

Oh well. Very very disappointing.

Not sure I can trust them...especially where it appears to be a problem in their controllers....

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Re: G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow
by Russ Haskell on Oct 20, 2009 at 9:52:30 pm

It's not trust that concerns me…my assumption is that people who are happily using their G drives day in and day out don't post on these forums. (I know I didn't until I bought these last two.) So I may just try another G-Tech model…I haven't decided.

I've had a lot of LaCie's and only had one problem drive - and that turned out to be the power supply - and no data were lost.

Good luck.

Russ

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