Using USB 1.1? Then file transfers are likely to crawl.
Just instaled a new external HD(80 Gb)from Western Digital.
It's extremely low!
Any solution to improve this new device performance?
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Just instaled a new external HD(80 Gb)from Western Digital.
It's extremely low!
Any solution to improve this new device performance?
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Using USB 1.1? Then file transfers are likely to crawl.
Considering that it's only been recently that computers have started coming with USB2 ports, there's a good chance that you've only got a USB 1.1 system. The max speed of USB 1.1 is 11Mbps, or roughly 10MB/s give or take a little. With overhead and other concerns, you're never going to even come close to that speed, and will probably be lucky to see around 5MB/s total throughput.
External drives should be used primarily for storage of things that aren't typically the sort of thing you need right now. It would be foolhearty to try and install games or other programs on it, since the access times are going to be way to low. Instead, you should use it for documents, images, and general backup sorts of things.
There's also not much you can do to speed it up. You could try buying a USB2 PCI card, but that will only help so much. The PCI bus is limited to somewhere around 33MB/s, a far cry from the 480Mbps capacity of USB2, but also significantly better than USB 1.1 at the same time. You could replace your motherboard with one supporting USB2, assuming you didn't buy a name brand system, in which case you'd basically need a whole new computer by the time you were done. Even in the ideal circumstances, external drives are always going to be slower simply because the data has to travel a greater distance and has to go through at least two additional conversion processes compared to internal drives.
The moral of the story is that external drives are always slower than internal, deal with it.
That's 11 million bits per second or 1.1 MBps.
Add in that its HALF-DUPLEX and you see why it's more like a serial port.
"Even in the ideal circumstances, external drives are always going to be slower simply because the data has to travel a greater distance"
Please. We used to tell the boss that when the ethernet got slow and we needed an extra day to fix it.
Bob