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USB 3.0 Western Digital 30mb/s transfer speed

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Well that is a good short cable. Are you on the front or rear ports?

I ask this again, because USB 3 is on of those picky things.

most 2.5 inch drives at 1tb should be good for at least 70-90 megabytes over at least the first half of the drive.

I would recommend trying it on another system(and another cable if you can, i know not everyone has a cable to spare) if you can, just to rule out the drive it self or cable. USB 3 still seems to have some bugs to be worked out.

I've tried both the front and rear ports (directly attached to motherboard).

My case is the NZXT Phantom 820 if it helps.

I have tried it on another computer and it still only reaches up to 30mb/s

I will see if I can borrow another cable.


Thanks

CrystalDiskMark or HD tune are also good ways to see how fast a drive is running(it kind of removes windows file transfers from the equation), it is moves solid on HD Tune(30 from end to end), then yeah something in the interface is stopping it(most likely it is connecting as USB 2.0).

The sequential test(even set to 1 run) should give you all the info you need.
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-...

If you use HD Tune, you do not need the pro version for read tests, if you try the Pro version demo do not use the Write test as it will erase the drive.
http://www.hdtune.com/download.html
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