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Comment on Is there a program to speed up the process between my external harddrive and USB? If used to run super fast now it seems to slow down. Hopefully something I can use offline. Thx

Novis@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Not enough info here. Is it a SATA drive connected to your mobo? What type of USB are you using? Are you transferring files?

If you are transferring files from a SATA drive, you’re going to be limited by the sata interface. If you are using an older USB standard, you are going to be limited by the speeds of that USB interface. Also depends on what specs your system is using.

If everything is “fast enough” (using an m.2 ssd and fast enough USB connector), it could be that your USB cable isn’t able to do 3.0 type speeds and is only meant for power or older devices.

Basically, without more info, there could be a lot of things at play here that’s not going to be resolved with a software solution. ALSO, you can’t really solve hardware problems with software anyways.

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Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Its a Samsung External 1tb to a Sandisk Usb 250gb

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- adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Flash is slow to write to. Even ‘USB3’ ones can get bogged down on long writes or copying lots of little files.
  
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- Novis@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  What about the device you’re connecting these two to? What are the interfaces on that device?
  
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