Seagate Expansion Drive Help

[ahuckphin]

i recently purchased a Seagate Expansion Portable Drive and performed some speed test by copying installations of Zorin OS onto the drive from my internal drive plugged and notice a max of 27 MB/s.

I also repeated the test when i plugged in the drive into a USB 2.0 port and also noticed the same speed
Basically plugging in this external drive in either a USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port results into a max transfer speed of 27 MB/s

My question being, is this all the drive can do?

[21rkosta]

you could run a proper drive speed test, but i wouldent be suprised if 27mb/s is the max transfer speed

[ahuckphin]

12 minutes ago, 21rkosta said:

you could run a proper drive speed test, but i wouldent be suprised if 27mb/s is the max transfer speed

this is a crystal disk mark result 

[Captain_WD]

16 hours ago, bindydad123 said:

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Hey there bindydad123

 

What are you using the drive on (Desktop or a Laptop computer)? 

If you are using a desktop I would recommend testing the drive on the back of the case as the drive may not be getting enough power from the front ports. 

I would also recommend to test the drive with another USB cable and on another computer to see if the benchmark results are the same.

If you have another USB3.0 device I would recommend testing it on the same port so you know it works at USB3.0 speeds and allows faster performance then the one you are getting. 

 

Checking if your OS and drivers (chipset, USB controller, etc.) are up-to-date is also a good thing to try to narrow things down. 

 

Using a diagnostic tool from the manufacturer to see if the device is performing properly is a good way to see if you have a malfunctioning device or not. 

 

Putting the benchmark utility on the side, transfer speeds depend not only on the device's speed but also on the load of the computer's hardware, the abilities of the other storage device to provide the data, the File Systems and, above all, the type of data that you are transferring. Moving a single larger files is always faster compared to moving many smaller files. 

 

Captain_WD.