- Jan 27, 2013
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Hey guys,
I have a 120GB SSD I use for everything .
I have a 2TB HDD which I'm trying to use for storage
I am copying files from my two old HDDs both are 1tb, across to my new HDD.
I am experiencing extremely slow transfer speeds from the old HDD to the brand new HDD.
File size I'm coping is about 90GB at the moment, but I copied a 170GB folder which took almost a day to finish.. if not more than a day, at like anywhere from 200kbps to the max which was 2mbps (when almost finished) which is absolutely crazy, I'm not sure if thats just me or..
I do know that HDD'S are significantly slower than SDDS (obviously) but this slow? It's ridiculous and factoring in such a large folder, shouldn't be taking this amount of time anyway.
The old HDD is quite old and does have damage to the pins, but still works, so I'm wondering if that could be the case?
Also, I have a completely fine HDD which is about a year newer than the one I'm attempting to copy to which had problems around the admin ownership, which I have no idea why, It kept disregarding me as admin and not allowing me to access the drive.
I worked around this by using a few CMD commands which gave me access to the drive, I'm unsure whether this is virus related or just the harddrive is fried?
It does not make sense for both of them to be doing this, well It does but doesn't.
Sorry for such the long read, but thanks in advance
EDIT: Removing SATA cables from SATA 2 to SATA 3 helped speed wise (obviously from 2-3) but I did not think it would make 80mb+ difference in transferring speeds.
still, any reason why this could be? or it's just simple as the switch from sata 2 to sata 3?
Cheers
I have a 120GB SSD I use for everything .
I have a 2TB HDD which I'm trying to use for storage
I am copying files from my two old HDDs both are 1tb, across to my new HDD.
I am experiencing extremely slow transfer speeds from the old HDD to the brand new HDD.
File size I'm coping is about 90GB at the moment, but I copied a 170GB folder which took almost a day to finish.. if not more than a day, at like anywhere from 200kbps to the max which was 2mbps (when almost finished) which is absolutely crazy, I'm not sure if thats just me or..
I do know that HDD'S are significantly slower than SDDS (obviously) but this slow? It's ridiculous and factoring in such a large folder, shouldn't be taking this amount of time anyway.
The old HDD is quite old and does have damage to the pins, but still works, so I'm wondering if that could be the case?
Also, I have a completely fine HDD which is about a year newer than the one I'm attempting to copy to which had problems around the admin ownership, which I have no idea why, It kept disregarding me as admin and not allowing me to access the drive.
I worked around this by using a few CMD commands which gave me access to the drive, I'm unsure whether this is virus related or just the harddrive is fried?
It does not make sense for both of them to be doing this, well It does but doesn't.
Sorry for such the long read, but thanks in advance
EDIT: Removing SATA cables from SATA 2 to SATA 3 helped speed wise (obviously from 2-3) but I did not think it would make 80mb+ difference in transferring speeds.
still, any reason why this could be? or it's just simple as the switch from sata 2 to sata 3?
Cheers
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