i currently have a toshiba laptop L355d with windows vista and i have an external 1tb hdd it claims on the box can transfer up to 480mbps** b ut i get no where even close to that speed i am luck when it hits 30mbps but my average is 21mps what can i do to make this go faster theres no reason that it should go this slow
The 480mbps=60MBPS; these were the theoretical specs of USB2.0...the actual speed is always going to be less than that. You can goto the device manager and open the properties for the drive. In there, you can change it from being optimised for quick removal to being optimised for performance with write caching and advanced performance, but you still will not see 60MBPS.
see what it transfers at on another pc to see if it is the enclosure or the laptop/windows is the problem. does it show enhanced usb controller in device manager?
Do you still have the indexing service turned on? If so, turn it off, reboot, and try a file copy again. DDP - If it was running in USB 1.0 mode, his speeds would be limited to 1.5MBPS.
i turned of indexing and it slowed it down by 2MB's the model of the drive is a western digital essential my book 1tb wd1000h1u-00
killerbug, still like to see if his enhanced usb controller is there as that is usb2 as usb1 does not have that.
i tested it on both computers both are toshiba only differce on mine i have 17inch monitor and dual amd turion processors and my wife has intel centrino duo
