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I just bought this new drive yesterday at Future Shop because my old one wasn't transferring data very fast, something that happened recently. So I bought the new one, that says it has a 12MB/sec transfer speed but when I put a 700MB movie onto it from my PC, it transfers at roughly 1MB/sec but keeps going up slowly. What's up with that? I already tried using it on a different USB slot on my computer as well as testing the transfer speed with no other USB devices plugged in to decrease the odds of splitting the speed but no luck. Any advice? I'm regretting having bought the drive now because the problem might have been my computer...

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I just removed three USB devices from my computer (my external HD, my keyboard and my printer) and then tried again with the new drive and it improved. It was transferring data at roughly 3.97MB/sec. It's safe to say that I have too many USB devices connected to my computer which is dividing the speed but what I don't understand is the following:

• How can I have them all connected while still maintaining a good speed for all devices? (Don't recommend hubs because I heard they are worse because the split the speed just as much)
  
• And one more thing; the drive was topping out at about 4MB/sec like I said. The drive is supposed to transfer at 12MB/sec. That's what doesn't make sense. Even when I unplugged everything, it still wasn't able to attain it's full potential. Any ideas?
  

Sometimes I've heard that computers have primary USB ports. I'd also check whether your ports are 2.0 or 3.0, as I hear that can affect transfer speeds too.

Recognize that that 12 mb/s rate is the MAXIMUM, and it is very unlikely for you to reach it.

Hope this helps a bit.

(05-12-2011, 12:43 PM)Scalise Wrote: [ -> ]Sometimes I've heard that computers have primary USB ports. I'd also check whether your ports are 2.0 or 3.0, as I hear that can affect transfer speeds too.

Recognize that that 12 mb/s rate is the MAXIMUM, and it is very unlikely for you to reach it.

Hope this helps a bit.

I tried unplugging all my other USB devices from my computer and then tried transferring the same file onto my flash drive while it was plugged into each port but all 6 USB slots that I have gave the same speed. They topped out at around 4MB/sec. So whatever they are, they're all the same type of ports.

This is from my PC; http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/1214/unledwgu.png

And this is an article I found; http://ask-leo.com/how_can_i_tell_if_i_have_usb_20.html

(05-12-2011, 01:12 PM)Solidify Wrote: [ -> ]I tried unplugging all my other USB devices from my computer and then tried transferring the same file onto my flash drive while it was plugged into each port but all 6 USB slots that I have gave the same speed. They topped out at around 4MB/sec. So whatever they are, they're all the same type of ports.

This is from my PC; http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/1214/unledwgu.png

And this is an article I found; http://ask-leo.com/how_can_i_tell_if_i_have_usb_20.html

Unless your computer is pretty old you have USB 2.0.