Transfer of files from old external to new external very slow!

Danny Lawrence

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Hi there

Im trying to transfer files from my seagate freeagent desktop (which ive removed from the casing and is now directly plugged into a SATA internally) to a new external drive.

Im getting transfer speeds of about 25kbps and need to transfer 250gb of mpeg,jpegs & docs..

Is there something else i can do to speed things along??
 

xcrossroadsx

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There really isn't. Chances are, the older drive is failing and it is having issues performing the transfer. If it isn't failing, then the issue is that you are moving a ton of really small files (random reads, which are really slow on HDDs), in which case there still isn't anything you can do to speed it up.