Yeah, as Peter said, that's pretty decent for USB. That's 3 megaBITS per second, or 384,000 BYTES per second, depending on how you do the math. Admittedly, the theoretical maximum speed of USB is closer to 10mbps. But protocol overhead robs some of that, plus you're discovering one of the truisms of manufacturer's bandwidth claims: You usually only get about half of their theoretical maximum. (Note that I'm referring to the USB hardware manufacturer in this case, not Empeg- no matter how efficient the Empeg is at using the USB port, there's still inherent hardware and driver limitations that they can do nothing about.)

Remember that you won't be doing that very often: Sending 4GB at once. Usually it'll only be a couple of albums at a time, and that will only take a few minutes.

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Tony Fabris