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?
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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?
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Um my computer is a dell xps m1710 i think it has usb 2.0
link:http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=224
Totally off topic but i see you have G skill ram. I am trying to choose between corsair and g skill is it good?
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Um my computer is a dell xps m1710 i think it has usb 2.0
link:http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=224
Totally off topic but i see you have G skill ram. I am trying to choo se between corsair and g skill is it good?
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bands dont matter base it on specs and price alone
dont bother looking at the heatsink either as for 20 bucks you can get a heatsink that pwns dominators
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are you running vista? There is a lot of people complaining about real sloppy I/O from HD transfers in vista.
http://www.tech-hounds.com/article29/ArticlesPage1.html
scroll down till you see the I/O problems article
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...fm/691048.html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/27/038227
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are you running vista? There is a lot of people complaining about real sloppy I/O from HD transfers in vista.
http://www.tech-hounds.com/article29/ArticlesPage1.html
scroll down till you see the I/O problems article
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...fm/691048.html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/27/038227
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All the better reason for me to go Mac....
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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.
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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
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I download the update from http://www.tech-hounds.com/article29/ArticlesPage1.html but it doesnt work .... i have 32 bit and that doesnt work so i tried 64 bit and still says doesnt work with my system wtf??
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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.
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