My external hdd is here
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002QEBMB4/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It's always worked very well, with copy speeds of around 90-100 mbps on usb 3.0. Last week though, out of the blue, it started copying so slow. I try to copy seasons of tv shows, and it starts out at 99mbps, for about 10 seconds, then it drops quickly to around 700-900kbps.
What could be the problem here? It cant be the port, as my other drives (seagate) work perfectly fine with my pc.
Please help me.
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Copying to external hdd extremely slow, please help.
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Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier.
We can write theory why it seems faster but let's not.
Bob
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It has roughly 300 gb left. And I tried The Unstoppable Copier, still got around 1mb per second. Any mnore suggestons?
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I've seen that on drives that have some odd file system corruption, bad cables, or other failures.
It's a sign you take to make a backup of said drive then blank that drive (removing all partitions is good enough) and starting over.
-> There is something I want to cover here. A few new to computer users try to put 1000's of files in one folder and wonder why the speed drops. Again, there is fine long discussions why this is so let's skip computer class and just say this is true. Are you doing that?
Bob
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