Mybook Premium 500gb so slow??

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Gamepsyched

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I just got a mybook premium 500gb external hdd for christmas. I hooked it up to my computer and everything installed fine, But now im backing up my internal hard drive ( wich is only 61.5GB of files) and in 1 an a half hours its only 16% done. Why is it so slow on the reviews people said it was hella fast.

(connected via usb 2.0 btw)
 
Just because the HDD is 2.0 doesn't necessarily mean your computer USB port is... It could be on 1.1...

It should be fast... Link on HDD?
 
I'm pretty sure external drives(besides true eSATA) are basically all limited at around ATA33 speeds. I did a benchmark on my SATA to USB converter, and it got about 34MB/s.
 
Someone on the review site says format it to ntfs because it comes shipped with fat 32 and my comp drive is ntfs. Yes i do have vista 32 bit but it says its compatible with vista
 
FAT32 is a filing system and does not affect I/O performance really. It is more limited than NTFS, but as far as file transfers go, I wouldn't say NTFS is leagues faster. Sure, NTFS is journaling, so the data could be accessed faster but transferring data over the network is mainly done by the OS over TCP/IP.

The update should be ran through windows update. It may not be a required update so you may have to thumb through the optional ones.
 
Well with ntfs its about 10x+ faster , but its still pretty slow ..... 15% in 20-30 min and im backing up 61.6 GB .... is that a good speed? this is my first external hdd
 
I've never tried backing up 60GB on an external but I'm fairly sure most USB 2.0 drives will cap out around 30MB/s. Last I saw they were bad at sustained transfers as well so big files will transfer slower then a bunch of small ones.
 
USB2.0 transfers at speeds around 480 mbit per second. However, USB is burst speed so its not a constant. When I rsync my music, which is around 100 gigs, I can do it over my network in about an hour or so give or take a few minutes.
 
tlarkin said:
USB2.0 transfers at speeds around 480 mbit per second. However, USB is burst speed so its not a constant. When I rsync my music, which is around 100 gigs, I can do it over my network in about an hour or so give or take a few minutes.
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there you go one example.
 
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