Internal slower than External

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I'm super confused as to what is going on,

This is my internal WD Black 7200 SATA gen 3

 

 

This is my new external plugged into a front port USB 3.0, It has a Seagate 5900

 

 

Any ideas?

 

Asus PRIME z270-k Motherboard

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No I already checked its plugged into a gen 3 port

 

[FRSHPRNCFBLR]

Could it come down to the space used on the internal hard drive? I mean, it's a hdd, even fragmentation might be a factor..

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its always been this speed ever since I bought it last year, I just thought HDDs were slower than I remembered since I have 3 other SSDs that I mainly use.

[scottyseng]

Keep in mind that the WD is a 2TB drive while the Seagate is a 4TB one. Typically the larger the drive, the faster the hard drive is (More platters / more data density)

 

I remember my old 1TB WD Black getting around the same 117MB/s speeds. My 4TB WD Red ran circles around it getting 160MB/s speeds.

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Interesting development, I was backing up the drive and I just blue screened with CACHE_MANAGER saying NTFS.sys was the cause.