USB makes my computer slooooooow

[Ryan]

Id say transfering 15gb would take up a lot of your
computers CPU and RAM resources. Try doing a transfer
while not doing anything on the computer.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a USB 2.0 External HDD and when I try transfer
say....15 Gigs to it,
>while the data is being transferred, my PC gets very
slow, opening a program
>takes forever and sometimes it freezes it. Any ideas on
why this is
>happening?
>
>My setup:
>
>XP Pro
>AMD Athlon 2.2
>Soyo Dragon Ultra Kt333
>1 Gig of Kingston 2700 DR333 RAM
>2 Barracuda 4 80 G HDDs
>1 Barrracuda 5 120 G HDD
>
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