New external HDD, slow transfers (Firewire)

Hi all, i just bought a new WD my book (1TB) to backup my files before i switch over to an x58 motherboard. I currently have an eVGA 680i mobo, with 1394a firewire. I'm currently transferring quite a bit of media files over, and it's ungodly slow.

I'm currently getting 14 MB/sec in vista (64). Is this normal? and is there anyway to increase the speed?

thanks.

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I too am having the same issue.
I have just moved from Windows XP to VISTA 64 Business. External drive transfer speed has slowed to around 15MB per second, I was getting 35MB per second. My Gigabit network transfer speed has slowed from 45MB per second to 10MB per second.

I have trawled the web looking into all of the various problem solving issues but no love. I have the latest service pack and all updates. This is very frustrating.

Reply to marcusflack

Hi Guys,

Hope this is of some help, as I had the same issue on my installation of Windows 7 RC Ultimate x64. The driver difference between Vista and W7 is so little, so 99% of all Vista drivers will work on Windows 7.

Anyway, to get back to the issue... I also have a WD MyBook connected via firewire 1394a. Had the same issue as you guys where the copy speed is extremely slow. You can try doing this in Vista x64, so here it goes.

Multiple drivers are shipped with the OS for firewire, the one we are looking for is the "Legacy" driver.

Open Device Manager, Expand your IEEE 1394 Host Bus Controllers and Right click on your 1394 device, then choose "Update Driver Software". On the new windows click on "Browse My computer for driver software", then choose "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer", then select the driver with the word legacy in brackets.

Easy as that! It worked for me as my speen went from 7MB to 52MB by just using the legacy drivers shipped with the OS.

Anyway, let me know if this works!

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Reply to jakkals

I had very slow backups when I implemneted W7x64 instead of Vistax64 with my firewire disk. Thanks for the lecacy TIP

How do you measure your speed for USB and Firewire transfers?

Reply to Bar2D2

The Legacy fix didn't work for me. I was (and still am) getting transfer speeds of about 5.5 MB/s. I walked through exactly the steps you recommended, even restarted the computer after doing so since another site recommended doing that, and the transfer speed is unchanged. I did notice that I now have an extra Device Manger field for SBP2 IEEE 1394 Devices, and when I safely disconnect the drive I get the yellow exclamation point on that device.

I searched the rest of the internet, and all I could find were more people recommending the Legacy fix. Any other ideas? The motherboard was originally in an HP Pavilion m8100n, and when I searched the HP site I didn't see any motherboard-specific drivers (had to search for Vista drivers, was planning on trying to run them in "Troubleshoot Compatibility" mode). I have Firewire connections on the front and back of the computer, tried both and speed was the same.

jakkals wrote :

Hi Guys,

Hope this is of some help, as I had the same issue on my installation of Windows 7 RC Ultimate x64. The driver difference between Vista and W7 is so little, so 99% of all Vista drivers will work on Windows 7.

Anyway, to get back to the issue... I also have a WD MyBook connected via firewire 1394a. Had the same issue as you guys where the copy speed is extremely slow. You can try doing this in Vista x64, so here it goes.

Multiple drivers are shipped with the OS for firewire, the one we are looking for is the "Legacy" driver.

Open Device Manager, Expand your IEEE 1394 Host Bus Controllers and Right click on your 1394 device, then choose "Update Driver Software". On the new windows click on "Browse My computer for driver software", then choose "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer", then select the driver with the word legacy in brackets.

Easy as that! It worked for me as my speen went from 7MB to 52MB by just using the legacy drivers shipped with the OS.

Anyway, let me know if this works!

Reply to it7276

jakkals wrote :

Hi Guys,

Hope this is of some help, as I had the same issue on my installation of Windows 7 RC Ultimate x64. The driver difference between Vista and W7 is so little, so 99% of all Vista drivers will work on Windows 7.

Anyway, to get back to the issue... I also have a WD MyBook connected via firewire 1394a. Had the same issue as you guys where the copy speed is extremely slow. You can try doing this in Vista x64, so here it goes.

Multiple drivers are shipped with the OS for firewire, the one we are looking for is the "Legacy" driver.

Open Device Manager, Expand your IEEE 1394 Host Bus Controllers and Right click on your 1394 device, then choose "Update Driver Software". On the new windows click on "Browse My computer for driver software", then choose "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer", then select the driver with the word legacy in brackets.

Easy as that! It worked for me as my speen went from 7MB to 52MB by just using the legacy drivers shipped with the OS.

Anyway, let me know if this works!

I just stumbled across this post since I was having the same slowdown problem with my GRaid external drives in Windows 7 and this actually helped me out.

Thanks

Reply to Xeonbuilder

XEONBUILDER --- if it were socially acceptable to hug you, I would do so. Although I'm running at a far reduced rate (I'm on FW800 with my GRAID) it's working for now...and until I get my backup drives installed on my W7 server, this will do. Then I'll have a couple GRAIDs for sale. Anyone interested??!

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