Wow! The USB HDD is delivering 98MB/40MB per second. CrystalMark speeds are impressive! Need some advice?
Wow! The USB HDD is delivering 98MB/40MB per second. CrystalMark speeds are impressive! Need some advice?
I'm facing a problem with really slow USB transfers. The results from my USB HDD using the 3.0 port are the same as the other 3.0 port—just slower than the 2.0 port. A 1GB 5400 spinner drive claims "ok" speeds, but that seems too low. I also tried another 2TB drive, which performed poorly. I've used different cables and even rebooted the system, but nothing changes. Any suggestions or tips for this W10 machine? It has plenty of CPU and RAM, and it's running a fast i7 with 16GB RAM. It doesn't seem like hardware is limiting performance. Thanks.
The specific model of the HD is unclear. A 100 MB/s read speed is reasonable for a lower-end model, particularly if the drive has more capacity and data resides closer to the slower inner part of the disk. Performance may vary; it could be faster otherwise, but a shingled drive might underperform. Defragmentation might also improve things.
Are there any distinctions between this HDD and an external one? (I can imagine an external HDD connected via USB just to confirm I'm comparing the right things.) I owned an external HDD with a setting for either fast access or better performance. Right-click the drive, go to Properties, then Hardware, choose the drive from the list, click properties again, and look for options like quick removal versus performance. [Quick removal indicates slower read/write speeds]
It seems like you're confirming something is correct.
Tbh, that makes sense.
Product details are limited and require more effort to uncover what's inside. Most makers have switched to SMR drives at the budget end, which could explain this situation. If true, write speeds might be severely impacted. Early reports showed read speeds were acceptable. A high-capacity 7200rpm desktop drive could maintain around 200MB/s initially but would drop significantly as it approached the end. A 5200rpm 2.5" drive would likely perform much worse, even without SMR. This highlights a potential issue with write performance if caching is restricted for safety on external drives, though read speeds should remain unaffected.
They asked about the motivation behind it, which is why the link was provided. There’s no searching involved—this is the reason. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H4XH5IG If you’re curious about what’s inside, check the first post on the purple screen. You might have missed it.
I confirmed the request. The external drive enclosure model doesn’t reveal the exact drive model we need, and no part number appears in the other image. You might want to use CrystalDiskInfo instead—it could bypass the enclosure translation issue.
That's a very basic mechanical drive. The speeds you're getting look normal to me, though the write speed is a bit on the lower side. Still not something I'd be surprised by with that kind of drive. The random performance also looks fine. It's a slow mechanical hard drive, and mechanical drives don't have good random performance. That's why they're very slow when transferring large amounts of small files, but they're faster when transferring larger files. It's just going to be a standard Seagate 2.5" mobile drive. There's basically no chance it'll even be a 7200 RPM model.