So, I have two drives; an SSD and HDD both 500GB. They're both pretty much full (>90%) so I recently bought a 2TB internal hard drive and wanted to transfer my OS from the HDD to the SSD. Since my case only had room for two drives, I decided to use a Seagate 2TB external drive just so I could have somewhere to store the files before I moved them to the new drive.
The thing supposedly has a rpm around 5000 and uses USB 3.0, and yet I am getting some ridiculously low write speeds when transferring files from my HDD (for transfer later to the new internal drive) to the Seagate.
See for yourself:
Now, like an utter mug, I didn't test the drive before I started moving - as in, not copying, no backup - my files to the ED. Most of the files are just games like Halo: CE, Star Trek: BC, Star Citizen, etc. Some are a bit more... irreplaceable. WIP mod files, WIP maps, some ShadowPlay footage. Stuff which can't just be redownloaded. And I don't have any recent backups anywhere.
I am aware that unless there is a spectacular failure, data can usually be recovered from drives which spontaneously clutch their proverbial chests and collapse to the floor. However I don't exactly feel like paying Seagate to recover my data from their glorified paperweight. What would be the best course of action, do you chaps think?
The thing supposedly has a rpm around 5000 and uses USB 3.0, and yet I am getting some ridiculously low write speeds when transferring files from my HDD (for transfer later to the new internal drive) to the Seagate.
See for yourself:
Now, like an utter mug, I didn't test the drive before I started moving - as in, not copying, no backup - my files to the ED. Most of the files are just games like Halo: CE, Star Trek: BC, Star Citizen, etc. Some are a bit more... irreplaceable. WIP mod files, WIP maps, some ShadowPlay footage. Stuff which can't just be redownloaded. And I don't have any recent backups anywhere.
I am aware that unless there is a spectacular failure, data can usually be recovered from drives which spontaneously clutch their proverbial chests and collapse to the floor. However I don't exactly feel like paying Seagate to recover my data from their glorified paperweight. What would be the best course of action, do you chaps think?
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