USB

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I have a gigabyte Z170XP-SLI motherboard with Gigabyte Luxo M30 Case. The total USB Slots in my PC equal to 11: 4 USB 2.0, 5 USB 3.0, 1 USB Type C, 1 USB Type A. I have an external hard drive, 500 Gigabytes of storage. (It is just a laptop drive in an external case.) It has a USB 3.0 wire on it. When I transfer data between the PC and the drive, I get slow speeds. It relaxes on 37 Mbps. I know I'm not doing anything wrong, because I'm plugging a USB 3.0 Drive in a USB 3.0 Socket. It still has low speeds. I tried every socket on the motherboard.

I also have a 32 GB USB with 2.0 speeds. I know that USB 2.0 is supposed to be slow, but it acts differently. Instead of having speeds of, say 20 Mbps, it is completely random behavior. First the speeds go up, upto 32 Mbps, then they slow down, as slow as 200 Kpbs. There is no relaxing point in this situation. It speeds up, slows down, repeats the cycle.

 

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?!?!?

 

(If I am patient, the data DOES get transferred successfully, meaning that there is only a problem with the speeds, and not the data. I can even access it on another computer or a laptop.) 

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transfer speeds over USB or network or to another disk depend on the size of the files being transferred and the type of filesystem in use.

Are you using quality USB 3 cable or cheap crappy ones.

Are you using NTFS? NTFS is slow

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2 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

transfer speeds over USB or network or to another disk depend on the size of the files being transferred and the type of filesystem in use.

Are you using quality USB 3 cable or cheap crappy ones.

Are you using NTFS? NTFS is slow

Quality USB 3.0 Cables.

I don't know if I'm using NTFS. If I am, how do I change it?

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42 minutes ago, THE PC GAMER said:

Quality USB 3.0 Cables.

I don't know if I'm using NTFS. If I am, how do I change it?

it really depends on the size of files you are using. have a look at this sites analysis:

http://www.flexense.com/fat32_exfat_ntfs_usb3_performance_comparison.html

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Conclusions:

• FAT32 File System - if the user needs to work with a relatively small number of medium-sized or large files, the FAT32 file system is good enough to be used with modern USB3 flash disks.
• exFAT File System - if the user needs to work with thousands of files stored on a USB3 disk and perform different types of operations, it is recommended to reformat the USB flash disk using the exFAT file system.
• NTFS File System - if the user needs to work with tens of thousands of files stored on a USB3 flash disk and perform many different types of operations, it is highly recommended to reformat the USB flash disk using the NTFS file system.

that site also has instructions at the end on how to reformat a drive to change its filesystem. You're kinda screwed in windows for filesystem variety