Hi
I bought a Western Digital MyBook Pro 250 GB external harddisk some time ago and recently got my 20" iMac. Now I would like to hook up my external harddisk on the iMac via firewire to get the extra features that provide and cause I have filled all the USB ports already.
When I plug it in with firewire it mounts just fine and I am able to transfer files between the iMac and the harddisk, but its soo slow while when I used USB it was working just fine. The weird thing is that when I retrieved data from the harddisk it was quite fast, but when I wanted to put files on it its unbarably slow. It have also sometimes been really really slow when I tried to retrieve data from it, but it seems to be going up and down.
Installing the software that came with the harddisk have made no difference. Infact after some research, I read that people say the software that comes with the harddisk makes it worse, since its not Universal Binary. However I felt no difference before and after I installed it.
If someone have a clue as to what I could do to make it work without problems via firewire I would be very very happy. It bothers me so much that I put money into this and it doesn't work.
I bought a Western Digital MyBook Pro 250 GB external harddisk some time ago and recently got my 20" iMac. Now I would like to hook up my external harddisk on the iMac via firewire to get the extra features that provide and cause I have filled all the USB ports already.
When I plug it in with firewire it mounts just fine and I am able to transfer files between the iMac and the harddisk, but its soo slow while when I used USB it was working just fine. The weird thing is that when I retrieved data from the harddisk it was quite fast, but when I wanted to put files on it its unbarably slow. It have also sometimes been really really slow when I tried to retrieve data from it, but it seems to be going up and down.
Installing the software that came with the harddisk have made no difference. Infact after some research, I read that people say the software that comes with the harddisk makes it worse, since its not Universal Binary. However I felt no difference before and after I installed it.
If someone have a clue as to what I could do to make it work without problems via firewire I would be very very happy. It bothers me so much that I put money into this and it doesn't work.