Originally Posted By: Ross Wellington
With Ethernet interface, it will load around 2.5GB/hour hours. USB, well now, that's just real slow. Believe me, I loaded my 120GB drives with that and Ethernet is MUCH FASTER.

Ethernet has a lower overhead on the empeg.

Originally Posted By: Ross Wellington
If you think about it, that is pretty good reliability for the Empeg and host system to sustain the 2.5GB/hour transfer. The host has a Seagate 750GB 7200 RPM ATA-6 drive with a SATA to IDE adapter and still sustains the transfer without errors.

??? 2.5GB/hour isn't fast at all. If your PC couldn't sustain that then there is something severely wrong with it. The laptop HD in the empeg will vastly exceed that itself.