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USB Hard Drive is really really slow - HELP!

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by markjrees, 2003/09/22.

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  1. 2003/09/22
    markjrees

    markjrees Inactive Thread Starter

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    A friend of mine has bought an external usb hard disk drive. Data transfer between the drive and the internal drive in his computer is terribly slow - 24 hours + to transfer 4gb!!


    It is usb v2 and the usb card in his system is also usb 2.

    Does anyone have any ideas as to what might speed things up (just a little bit)???



    Might it be the cable?


    Cheers
     
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  2. 2003/09/22
    Steve R Jones

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    I recently did some tests on my pc. Did 400 meg from 2.0 usb external to hdd in 2.5 minutes. Going the other direction was a little faster. So ya, 24 hours would be a bit long.

    Is the pc fairly new and modern? Plenty of ram etc? Was the coping the only thing going on?

    Can always try a different cable. Would be interesting to try the external on another pc?
     
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  4. 2003/09/22
    Calculus

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    Make sure usb 2.0 is suppoted by Windows XP, its not supported natively in it (maybe SP1 is, not sure) you need to have usb 2.0 root hub drivers installed otherwise it will only run to 1.1 standards. Which is what your current speeds would reflect (actualy a bit better, but still way too slow).


    If the motherboard has built in USB 2.0 ports the drivers should come with the motherboard CD rom, otherwise you probably have to get them from MS
     
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    Vahe

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    I would do 2 things:

    1. Disable ANY antivirus auto-protect software (since the presence of an anti-virus can dramatticaly decrease the speed of any data transfer)

    2. Download the appropriate latest drivers! :)
     
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  6. 2003/10/03
    markjrees

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    yeah i've already got SP1 for windows xp and tried without any anti-virus software - still it's deadly slow.

    when we plug the drive in (to any of our win xp sp1 PCs) it does specifically say that we've not got the latest drivers - even though SP1 supposedly has the latest drivers for USB 2?
     
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