Why USB 2.0 does not transfer at full speed?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by BrokenArrows, Dec 17, 2004.

  1. BrokenArrows

    BrokenArrows Sergeant

    Hi i reciently bought a HDD MP3 player 40GB with USB 2.0 enabled. My laptop also has USB 2.0. I looked up the transfer speed of USB 2.0 and its supposed to be 480Mbps yet it took me over 2 minutes to transfer a 430MB file to my mp3 player.

    Can anyone help me.
     
    BrokenArrows, Dec 17, 2004
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  2. fleppen

    fleppen Gumshoe

    that's cause it is 480 MegaBITS / second, not 480 MegaBYTES / second.
    so it does actually work at full speed.

    also there's other factors like chipset design, chipset drivers, os, cpu load etc etc
     
    fleppen, Dec 17, 2004
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  3. BrokenArrows

    BrokenArrows Sergeant

    ohhh......


    i feel kinda stupid now. lol.

    thanks.
     
    BrokenArrows, Dec 17, 2004
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