Slow access to USB hard drive

[rwcitek]

I started to transfer the data (~22 Gb), which is happening, but at the current rate I think it will take about a month to finish! (The file copy message generally says "Stalled" in the transfer rate section)

Any pointers to how to improve the transfer speed and my chances of ending-up before the year ends?

Sounds like your drive is using USB1.1 drivers instead of the USB2.0 drivers.

You have three options:
1) figure out how to get your device to use the USB2.0 drivers
2) switch to FireWire (ieee1394)
3) do the transfer over the network

Personally, I've had much better luck with FireWire than USB, but YMMV.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org