Usb 3.0 problem?

tpma4life

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Feb 1, 2013
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So I just recently (as in today) purchased a seagate backup plus 1 tb hard drive, which supports usb 3.0.

I have an asus sabretooth x58 motherboard which has usb 3.0 built in on the back.

This is my harddrive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284

Connecting the usb 3.0 to the hard drive however, only nets me around 39-40 mb/s when transferring files from my harddrive to my external.

When I transferred 2 files (a gig a piece, so a total of 2 gb) from the drive back to my desktop, it wrote at about 100 mb/s.

Is this how it's supposed to work? I always assumed the speed of USB 3.0 would at least somewhat outperform 2.0. When I transfer from my desktop to the drive connected 2.0, it still nets me 39/40 mb/s. I am not going to be transferring much from the external to my desktop, only the other way around.