[RoSs_bg2_rox]

Originally posted by Vaskez: quote: Originally posted by Jorath Calar: Because through a 5$ cable it could take like a week... [img]smile.gif[/img] Get a portable hard drive, cost like 150$ 200gb (Over here at least) and Norton Ghost. You can use it to zip up you whole hd and port it over to the laptop... and not only that, your system setup from the oldie can be set up on the new computer... My friend did it and it took about half an hour... [img]smile.gif[/img] [edit] I see that Ross already suggested it... so look at this as a confirmation... I have to start reading whole threads before I post... second time today this happens... [img]smile.gif[/img]

ROFL, what are you on about? The cables have throughputs of 10Mbps or 100Mbps depending on the type and on your NIC. So take 10Mbps that's 1.25MB/s. Ok there is some protocol overhead maybe, let's say 1MB/s. So to transfer 1GB it's 1000 seconds, to transfer 100GB it's 100,000 seconds or 27 hours, but that's only with the slowest possible cable type. With the 100Mbps it's theoretically less than 3 hours. [/QUOTE]Although the fastest you'l ever get with Ethernet (on 100MBps) is something like 50. USB2 is faster than this.