I have a WD passport 500GB external drive with 300GB free space and no fragmentation.
I was trying to copy/paste my ~60 GB data from my old laptop into this drive using a usb 3.0 connection. It begins with 2-3Mb/s but slows down to less than 100Kb/s only after 2-3GB have been transferred. The result is that after more than 12 hours only 3-5 GB have been transferred. The copy pop-up still shows files being copied very slowly like a few files every minute out of 100s of thousands of files.
I have checked the disk drives->policies and it's checked for "optimize for performance". The "write caching" option is grayed out. I also stopped the Background Intelligent Services on the laptop. The laptop OS is Vista.
I really have no idea why this is happening. I had copied the same data about 2 months ago to a different folder in this external drive in about 12-18 hours, even though the final results had showed a difference of ~1GB in the source and destination folder with destination not getting 1GB less.
But now the data transfer is almost hung every time I try to do it. How should this be fixed?
I was trying to copy/paste my ~60 GB data from my old laptop into this drive using a usb 3.0 connection. It begins with 2-3Mb/s but slows down to less than 100Kb/s only after 2-3GB have been transferred. The result is that after more than 12 hours only 3-5 GB have been transferred. The copy pop-up still shows files being copied very slowly like a few files every minute out of 100s of thousands of files.
I have checked the disk drives->policies and it's checked for "optimize for performance". The "write caching" option is grayed out. I also stopped the Background Intelligent Services on the laptop. The laptop OS is Vista.
I really have no idea why this is happening. I had copied the same data about 2 months ago to a different folder in this external drive in about 12-18 hours, even though the final results had showed a difference of ~1GB in the source and destination folder with destination not getting 1GB less.
But now the data transfer is almost hung every time I try to do it. How should this be fixed?
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