Ahh.. so directly drive to drive inside a single player. In that case, the transfer speed could have been as high as EDIT: 2.7 MBytes/sec, which is what I just now measured as the throughput from the IDE interface on one of my Empegs.

At that speed, a 30GB read would take as little as 3 hours. But the copy program is probably slower than that, and the IDE bandwidth would be split between reading from one drive and writing to the other, doubling the copy time to a little over 6 hours.

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