why is my external HD so slow?

jeeheon

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i have two external HDDs, one seagate and one acer. i back up my computer to the seagate, and back up my seagate to the acer. the acer i back up only every few months because i keep that in a seperate room in case the seagate and the computer get stolen or something ::knockonwood::.

im trying toback up my seagate with the acer but its copying at speeds of around 40-180 kb/s!! that'll take DAYS.

im on windows 8 (problem persisted on my windows 7 machine so its not a win8 issue), i7 2.4ghz, 16 gigs of ram, SSD primary drive.

btw, on windows 8 it wont let me optimize the external HDDs to force me to safely remove every time for some reason

the acer has ben error checked (its fine) and defragged
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
how do i change the removal policy, it doesnt have an option for it on the device properties - is this even relevant?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
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