Slow data transfer?

Casdawer · 17 May 2012 at 19:56

Hello,

I am copying some files to my new 2TB drive but the data transfer rate is 40Mb/s a second.

Is that a little slow?

Surveyor · 17 May 2012 at 20:15

That would depend on the types of files and how the HDD is connected.

Copying small files will be slower than large files.

USB 2.0 will be slower than USB 3.0, SATA or eSATA.

Casdawer · 17 May 2012 at 20:54

There 2 drivers are both connected via SATAII directly to the motherboard.

I am copying about 1TBs worth of data.

100%scottish · 17 May 2012 at 21:08

I just done something similar and I was only getting 30 -34Mb/s :\

Essexraptor · 18 May 2012 at 00:55

Casdawer said:
There 2 drivers are both connected via SATAII directly to the motherboard.

I am copying about 1TBs worth of data.

It's about right then.... assuming that the 1 TB of data is composed of many, many , many different files and and file sizes