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External Hard Drive gotten really slow

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December 28, 2013 5:24:43 PM

I've been using my external hdd for quite some time now and it never gave me any problems but now it suddenly got slow like really slow, 1 mbps transfer rate and I tried it on 2 different pc and laptop. When I browse files, it takes forever to load and copying/deleting is kinda. Its not in its original case because it broke so I bought a different case and it was working fine till now. I have also tried different wires and ports, already searched for errors but it takes forever to scan. Also, I noticed there is some sort of noise coming for my hard drive but I cant explain it, you can hardly hear it and its not a "click" btw. I'm already copying essential data to my laptop but its taking forever with 1 mbps transfer rate, any suggestion to what I can do to copy faster?
Its a 2.5 WD usb 2.0 HDD

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December 28, 2013 7:18:15 PM

nope. it sounds like the drive is failing.
In the furture it might be wise to remember that you should never have only 1 copy of important files and those copies should never be saved on the same device.
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