USB 3.0 too slow

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furious34

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I just bought a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB 3.0 HDD. When trying to transfer data to the device from an old HDD I am getting data transfer rates of ~500kB/s. When transferring data to the new HDD from a USB data stick I am achieving data transfer rates of ~10MB/s. I am not getting USB 3.0 transfer speeds. What is the problem? I have Windows 7 Pro 64bit. Motherboard is Asus P8H67-M Pro. I have the USB 3.0 driver that came on the MB CD installed.

Please Help! :)
 
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Okay, so the bottleneck is the old hard drive and therefore I can achieve much higher transfer rates when transferring from other "faster" devices to the USB 3.0 hard drive...

I need to transfer 250GB worth of data from the old hard drive to the new USB 3.0 hard drive. I can only get ~500kB/s which will equate to about six days of uninterrupted data transfer.

Is there any way to speed up the process?
 
You should be getting more then what you are getting. I would say you have an issue with the old hard drive or an issue with the sata controller itself.
 
The old hard drive analysis says that it is 0% fragmented. I forgot to mention that the hard drive has had the partition deleted so I need to use a program to re-mount it each time I want to access the data on it. Would that have anything to do with this? Otherwise I think taking a look at the SATA controller is a good idea. How would one go about doing this?
 
furious34 said:
The old hard drive analysis says that it is 0% fragmented. I forgot to mention that the hard drive has had the partition deleted so I need to use a program to re-mount it each time I want to access the data on it. Would that have anything to do with this? Otherwise I think taking a look at the SATA controller is a good idea. How would one go about doing this?
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The recovery partition program? If so, it is normally that it take long time to recovery.
 
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