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from dvdrw to MBP slow!!!! ???

post #1 of 10
2/8/07 at 4:00pm
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well i had a mb before this. and now i have this nice new mbp.

anyways. no matter if i use the internal or an external fw400 dvdrw drive, the mbp goes 2MB/s transfer to the internal mbp HD. even if i transfer it to the external 200gb hd i have, its still slow.


low and behold, i plug the fw400 dvdrw into my old mb, and it goes about 10MB/s

what gives? when using the pro, and either dvd drive, the dvd never really starts spinning up fast, like on the mb.

i thought these pro's were supposed to be a better solution, this just seems like a reversal to me
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post #2 of 10
2/8/07 at 7:38pm
I don't know why...I know the firewire on my PowerBook seems glacially slow. It should take less than an hour to transfer 80 gigs of data but it's taken upwards of 5 to 6 hours before.

Moved to support.
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post #3 of 10
2/9/07 at 3:22am
Took me 5hrs to do 160GB to a USB 2.0 external hard drive dont use FW that much altho my ext has it.

Never had an issue like that tho.
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post #4 of 10
2/9/07 at 5:55pm
shite! time to get an eSATA card and external enclosure!
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post #5 of 10
2/9/07 at 10:25pm
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its got to be a hardware issue with my mbp i think. any dvd i use, no matter internal superdrive or external fw/usb dvdrw goes mega slow.

what do i do?
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post #6 of 10
2/9/07 at 11:56pm
What Burn app are you using?

older versions of toast use Rosetta I believe.

lets go from there
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post #7 of 10
2/13/07 at 12:19pm
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this is not burning anything.

this is simply copying data off of a cd/dvd.

2MB/s max
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post #8 of 10
2/14/07 at 6:00pm
Does it happen with all discs? or is it just dirty ones? I have seen recently a few Macbook pro's with bunk optical drives
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post #9 of 10
2/15/07 at 12:22am
the brand/quality of media might be an issue too. what brand r u using?
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post #10 of 10
2/15/07 at 3:54pm
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ive tried various stuff. cdr's, dvdr+-'s

some are shoddy brands, no names, but others like my ridata should do more than 2MB/s

it seems to be the drive. what can i tell apple? anything?
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