Turns out the "most wonderful excellent design in modern styling" usb hub i bought from china, this nice 16 port, usb 2.0 hub....is at fault.
connecting the drive directly to the mac mini.....77gig transfers in 14 minutes.
So yeah, pretty sure that make the hub the culprit. lol
So you're saying do away with Lion, downgrade...and everything will magically be better....?
Not exactly the fix i was looking for. Infact, thats no fix at all.
I have a mid-2010 Mac Mini.
I have an external seagate 2TB drive. I formatted it OSX extended, journalled.
I said NO, no time machine. This drive is just for me to put files on.
That being said.... transferring files is pathetically slow.
7 hours right now for 8.84gig. I could have...