Slow speed on external HD

Mr soft

Mr soft

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Hello all.

I have a weird problem, I have recently built a system.
When I plug in a external 500g sata it reports that it would perform faster if plugged into a high sped usb. My bios is set to detect 1.1 or 2.0 auto.
I tried all the back usb slots and the front ones and I´m stumped.
Any advice welcome.
 
Hey,

if you check your device manager, are there any "?" symbols by anything under USB ?
you might have to install or upgrade your usb2 drivers. If you mobo/bios has usb2 support but windows doesnt recognize it (such as this case) its probably a driver issue.
 
I finally figured it out, It was the usb cable. At least I think it was ,I swapped it for another cable and no warnings, it just started fast transfer speeds.
The other cable was from my older Fujitsu camera .
Does this even make sense ? Can some cables only have 1.1 connectivity?
 
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Mr soft said:
I finally figured it out, It was the usb cable. At least I think it was ,I swapped it for another cable and no warnings, it just started fast transfer speeds.
The other cable was from my older Fujitsu camera .
Does this even make sense ? Can some cables only have 1.1 connectivity?
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Depends how old the cable is...

It could have been a 1.1
 
I don't think so actually. Doesn't USB have a potential speed of 480Mbps (60MB/s I think)? I'm pretty sure hard drives speeds cap at around 60. So it could lag a bit but not likely.
 
oregon said:
I don't think so actually. Doesn't USB have a potential speed of 480Mbps (60MB/s I think)? I'm pretty sure hard drives speeds cap at around 60. So it could lag a bit but not likely.
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USB isn't very good at sustained transfers. If you are looking at small files then yes, it's pertty fast but for big files it's quite slow.
 
I simply grabbed a usb model here for transfers between systems where it gets a little awkward burning data disks all the time and nothing fits on floppies anymore! I could have easily plugged in the eSata port on the case used here to see instant access by a direct plug in to the board by way of an extension cable.

The delays are seen when first going to browse and copy entire folders loaded with large or numberous files of one type stored in them. The external usb models are actually better suited for use with laptops where you don't have the options a desktop(custom especially) will see there. People simply grab the usb models due to the lower prices on them.
 
Linux isn't bloated with startup items like Windows is in general. Some of the larger distros can actually be likened to 95a due for that reason. Everything there for the most part is still based on the UNIX platform.

For booting off of an external drive usb and firewire not recommended while eSata is simply a drive in an external casing still plugged directly into the board. Primarily they are meant for storage purposes.
 
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