Is my usb hdd failing

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Usb 2.0 iomega 2tb hdd copy to another usb hdd starts copy at 20mb/sec and copying 9.8gb slows to near 13mb/sec. Does this indicate the drive is failing?
Image to the iomega drive is about 350+kb sec.
 
Solution
Not at all.

Different files transfer at different speeds.

13MB/s is actually not bad for USB 2 transfer from one platter to another...