How long to backup about 470Gb music (WAV) to Buffalo HD, please.

[craigowl 0]

This music is on Olive 03HD - about 730 albums.

 

It has been running for about 30 hours!

 

Hard drive is Buffalo 500Gb FAT32.

 

(And I used to think making music tapes and cassettes was time-consuming.)

[davidwort 0]

What connection, If it's a low speed USB cable it could literally take days!

A bit of googling and at USB 1 speed, which could be as low as 1Mb/sec I reckon I will take 130 hours :lol:

[beastie4126 0]

I have a Buffalo NAS drive and it's dog slow via USB and Ethernet so expect and nice long wait I'm afraid.

[craigowl 0]

Thanks, guys.

"Supports USB2.0/1.1" on Buffalo box.

Desktop is quite recent Dell Inspiron 530, I guess it will be USB 2.0?

 

Days then, anyway?

[craigowl 0]

Found it wasn't actually downloading anything!

Olive softwear user info is more Spartan than the Spartans - to say the least - no messages to tell you what is happening, how to do stuff. Nothing in manual, nothing online. How come other electronic products nearly smother you with pdf manuals, etc. online? The modern world is crazy.

 

Anyway, I restarted download, this time got a progress graph and it did the download "successfully", it said, in about 10 hours.

This is a music server at the bottom of the Olive range (03HD). If you want to see how many complaints you can get about "state-of-the-art" servers bigger than that and costing ££several thousands, check out the avs forum.

Glad mine from hifi store in Harrow (ex-dem)is claimed to be trouble free, and more importantly, warrantied for a year.

Brilliant when it is working. Nuff said.

People knocked the Brennan, too. I have had mine for several years now, playing faultlessly, but it had to go back to them 3 times before bugs ironed out.

Hi-tec can be very unimpressive, due to the race to get stuff on the shelves.

Possibly not as bad as that in the car industry now?