Copying External Hard Drives

[johnnymk]

I transferred data from a USB 2.0 hard drive to another external USB 2.0 hard drive using Windows Explorer (picking and choosing).The transfer rate was approx. 14 Mb/second which isn't too shabby. However, I would like to speed up the process considerably.

I am using onboard USB 2.0 on a 6 year old ABit M/B with a 2.4 Intel processor.

Would a PCI card with USB ports be faster? And would a PCI-e card using a faster processor on another system be even faster?

[InfiniteNothing]

USB is 60 MB/s (ideally)

Your hard drives are your bottle necks I believe. You need one of these:
http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_cheetah_15k_5.pdf
73-125 MB/s Super drool

[johnnymk]

They are Western Digital My Book 1 TB.

[Jeffbx]

Probably the only thing that would boost that would be using firewire rather than USB - but then you might need to swap your enclosures if they don't already have a firewire port.

[Maarchk]

It could also be the write speed of your harddrives. They have to read and write and check. Just because it can move it, doesn't mean things can handle it...