http://forum.lowyat.net/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:34:01 +0800 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1933380 Hi, i recently just bought a <b>Imation Apollo-G2 2.5 Portable HDD (500GB)</b>. It comes with a mini USB to USB cable, i was actually going to transfer all my songs, photos &amp; music videos collection to it for backup from my computer, but it takes freaking forever to transfer as i notice the speed actually will drops to 700kbps from 25mbps... =.=&quot; I&#39;m not sure whether this is normal, but was thinking whether i can actually buy a mini USB to eSATA cable to speed up the transfer process. The thing is, my laptop has a eSATA port while my Portable HDD has a mini USB port, so i was wondering if this cable can be used for any portable hdd? Should i buy 1? Any advice whether it will work for my Portable hdd? <br /><br />Any help will be much appreciated. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--><br /><br />[addedon]June 26, 2011, 3:42 pm[/addedon]Btw, the Portable HDD initially is FAT32, i actually formatted it to NTFS since i need to backup some .iso files which is 6GB-9GB in size. The thing is, it seems like after doing a full format for my Portable HDD (which takes up to 7 hours long), its transfer speed is getting worst. And sometimes it seems like the Portable HDD takes a long time to respond to any action. And the fact that this PHDD is new... bmx123 Technical Support Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:38:11 +0800