Why Are My Transfer Speeds so Slow?

Very Slow External Hard Disk Transfer Speeds

Situation1: Hello, what can I do to cope with external HDD slow transfer speed issues? Honestly, when trying to move some important files from the attached WD external hard disk to another Seagate USB hard disk on my Windows laptop, the transfer speed was about 100KB/S at first. It was really understandable. However, seconds latter, it just weirdly dropped to about 2MB/S and never changed back again. It could be really horrible to wait till all about 100GB of data is completely transferred there. Why does that strange thing happen? What am I supposed to do now? Thanks!

Situation2: Hey, experts there! I am wondering why drive transfer speed becomes so slow. Please tell me the possible reasons and let me know what to do for improving the transfer speed. Thank you very much!

 

Situation3: Hello, friends! I want to know why the maximum transfer speed is only about 10 MB/S, whenever I am trying to move some files from my computer to the plunged external hard disk. What I do to fix this?

 

Hello, friends! As I know, the actual transfer speed of an external hard disk often can depend on many elements. You’d better not rush to feel depressing or panic and firstly go see some possible causes. And then, go see what you can do to fix such slow transfer speed issues.

Why Are the File Transfer Speeds so Slow?

The transfer speed of your external hard disks often gets reasons to become really slow. Therefore, you’d better firstly find out the reasons behind. Here are several elements that can affect your drive transfer speed:

1). External hard disk file system format, like NTFS, FAT32 or More.

In these days, many external hard disks are designed with different file system formats, like NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, HFS, HFS+ and more. With different hard drive formats, you often also have different Maximum file size, maximum drive partition capacity and maximum file transfer speed, etc. Therefore, with an unsupported RAW file system format, your external hard drive even cannot be accessed without first format. Therefore, check the file system format of your external drive to see whether is still shown there normally.   ,  

2). External hard disk free space

Sometimes, when you get no enough free space with your external hard disk, your hard disk transfer speed also could be negatively affected. Therefore, also go check whether your USB hard disk is nearly out of space.

3). External hard disk state

Of course, whether your USB hard disk could work normally as before on your PC often also depends on whether this hard disk is still in good state. Once it is physically damaged, gets bad sectors or has some logical damages, etc, the common file transfer speed also could be unbearably slow. Therefore, also go check the hard disk state latter.

4).The transferred hard disk data conditions

What have you tried to transfer? In daily use, the state of your transferred hard disk data also could put a negative impact on your data transfer speeds, especially when you do have moved a very large amount of data at a once.

5).Other reasons

There are also other reasons that can affect the drive transfer speeds.

Hope these listed major ones could help you find some useful clues.

What to Do with Slow Hard Disk Transfer Speed Issues?

Honestly, as with such slow drive transfer speed issues, people often can easily fix them as long as the original hard disk is not completely corrupted. Here are possible ways for you to take chances:

1). Do not transfer too much data at a time.

Since some USB hard disk does have maximum data limit or the transfer speed of the assigned hard disk could be affected by the amount of your transferred data, you’d better learn not to move too much data at a time. If you do really need transfer a very large amount of data there, you’d better divide it all into smaller groups and move them all with several times.

2). Learn to change the file system format of your USB hard disk.

The maximum file size and maximum data capacity could be different due to different file system format. But, that doesn’t mean you cannot do anything with this. If it is necessary, it is also practical for you to convert your hard disk from one file system into another. For example, if you get RAW file system external hard disk issues, you can easily format this drive to change it from RAW to NTFS or FAT32.

Please Note:

No matter which type of external drive file system formats you decides to change, always remember to make drive data backups well in case of losing important data inside unexpectedly.

3). Free USB hard disk space

In case that your slow hard disk transfer speed issues are caused by low free space, you’d better check the left free space of this drive in Properties and also go free much more drive space to speed up the hard disk performance. What you can do to free more drive space is to delete all useless files and folders, and also remove all unnecessary programs or tools.

4). Repair external hard disk 

Very slow drive transfer speeds also could be aroused by damaged external drives, no matter whether is physically or logically damaged. Go repair it with suggestion from some drive experts or repairing shops.

Please Note: No matter which way you choose to use, always consult the price carefully in case of some unexpected problems.

External Hard Disk Data Recovery Software to Retrieve Lost Data after Delete or Format

Have make any important data backup on another drive or location before you delete the drive information or format this drive to fix this slow transfer speed issue? If not, also do not panic! After accidentally deleting some useful external drive files or formatting external drive without data backups, external drive data recovery software often can help recover deleted or lost drive data with ease.

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