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Cowon X5L slow file transfer / user education

post #1 of 10
5/4/08 at 7:49pm
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EDIT: Thanks for all the help, guys. I've been insanely busy the last couple days so I haven't been able to try tethering it using the subpack yet, but it sounds like it'll work just fine. I'll update this thread at that point.

Thanks again,
-DK


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What the hell is wrong with this unit? I went to transfer a bunch of music on to it today, and the Windows File Transfer box says "69 minutes remaining" -and FYI/FWIW, it's always been this slow. Even when it was fresh out of the box.

Umm... yeaaaaaah. I can fill up my 4GB flash drive in about 2-5 minutes depending on average file size.

Is this just something you have to "learn to live with" if it's a HDD-based device?

Help!
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post #2 of 10
5/4/08 at 8:19pm
How much data are you moving? What size hard drive? Are you using the USB connection at the bottom of the player or the Host USB connection on the side?

And yes, transfer speeds are fairly slow. I have no idea where the bottleneck might be. I guess that moving 20 gigs of music to my X5L probably takes close to 40 minutes. Worth the frustration for such a decent DAP.
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post #3 of 10
5/4/08 at 9:56pm
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Originally Posted by breakfastchef View Post
How much data are you moving? What size hard drive? Are you using the USB connection at the bottom of the player or the Host USB connection on the side?

And yes, transfer speeds are fairly slow. I have no idea where the bottleneck might be. I guess that moving 20 gigs of music to my X5L probably takes close to 40 minutes. Worth the frustration for such a decent DAP.
I was moving about 2-3 GB today. It said that would take 69min.

I was using the connection on the left-hand side of the device.

The HDD is 30GB
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post #4 of 10
5/4/08 at 10:00pm
If it's a hard drive, it should transfer at least a song (about 5-10mb) per second... at least that's what I'm getting with my H120.

It looks like it's connected using USB 1.1, which is really slow.
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post #5 of 10
5/4/08 at 10:10pm
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Originally Posted by Sduibek View Post
I was moving about 2-3 GB today. It said that would take 69min.

I was using the connection on the left-hand side of the device.

The HDD is 30GB
why dont you use the subpack that came with the unit? plug it on the bottom of the x5l, then plug the usb cable into the subpack. the transfer will be a lot faster. transfer was super slow when using the usb connection on the left hand side of the device.
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post #6 of 10
5/4/08 at 10:14pm
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post #7 of 10
5/4/08 at 11:29pm
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Originally Posted by Sduibek View Post
I was using the connection on the left-hand side of the device.
That is your problem. The USB Host port is USB 1.1; way slower than the USB 2.0 connection though the subpack. The Host USB was really designed to offload digital photos from a camera. Only after Cowon was hounded by hoardes of DRM music-buying zombies, did they produce a flaky firmware upgrade that allowed the X5 to receive these tracks via the USB Host port.
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post #8 of 10
5/5/08 at 1:45am
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Originally Posted by breakfastchef View Post
That is your problem. The USB Host port is USB 1.1; way slower than the USB 2.0 connection though the subpack. The Host USB was really designed to offload digital photos from a camera. Only after Cowon was hounded by hoardes of DRM music-buying zombies, did they produce a flaky firmware upgrade that allowed the X5 to receive these tracks via the USB Host port.
So this begs the question... why include a port that's USB1.1 which we all know to be inferior. Makes no sense to me
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post #9 of 10
5/5/08 at 1:50am
Yeah just use the subpack. Heck I didn't even know you could transfer files using that port. The subpack has always been extremely fast, even faster than my D2.
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post #10 of 10
5/11/08 at 11:40pm
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Thanks again for all the responses. I transferred the same amount of data using the USB2.0 subpack and it took about 10 minutes or so

thanks!
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