Windows 98SE - USB 2.0 Question

[Monroe]

Multibooter ... thanks for the USB info and mentioning Beyond Compare ... found some info on it, will spend more time later today checking it out.

"1) Win98SE Explorer has serious issues. To copy, move or delete files I always use Beyond Compare, never Windows Explorer.

2) I always do file copying, moving or deleting under WinXP, very rarely under Win98.

3) Under WinXP I rarely use Windows Explorer, nearly always Beyond Compare for file operations

4) After copying files with Beyond Compare, I always make a binary compare with Beyond Compare of the source and the target."

.... thanks for the tips ... also, shortly after I bought the Seagate drive I started reading about serious problems with Seagate USB hard drives ... making clicking noises and just complete failure. So far, since I just discovered that I am able to transfer files much faster with it (March) I have been using it quite a bit and so far all is well ... I have gone over the "half way" mark of having around 300 GB of stored info and all is OK so far. I remember people saying that problems started showing up after going past the 200 or 300 GB mark ... loud clicking noises, general failure and a few other things. Maybe these problems were more with the larger size drives, don't remember much talk about the 500 GB size. I wanted a USB drive with a power adapter and not USB power, Office Max had them on sale 3 yrs ago so I bought this Seagate model. I converted it from NTFS to FAT32 to use with Windows 98SE but it pretty much just sat around in the box till March when I discovered how much faster my files were transferring over using my 4 and 8 GB flash drives. So I have been using it fairly heavy and as I said, all seems to be OK ... maybe I got lucky on this particular model or shipment ... time will tell I guess ... most of the stuff I have on it now will be burned to DVDs shortly when I get the XP setup completely finished on all three IBM notebooks. Want to get all that out of the way and have a final Ghost backup on everything.

dencorso ... appreciate the USB 3 info ... 3 to 7 seconds ... that's fast, so I guess I am just getting USB 2.0 transfer speeds but I am very happy with 25 seconds after having 4 minute transfers with the flash drives. You are the USB guy, one of your many "hats" you wear ... I will wait to hear more about this USB 3.0 from you, rloew, jaclaz or anyone with new information but I sure have no complaints with 25 seconds or just having faster transfer speeds.

thanks ...