Hi everyone, first post to this forum -
I am curious about windows 8 transfer speeds. I'm currently running a Dell XPS 1647 (mid 2010 model) with a USB 3 card from Startech installed in the expressport. It works great, but windows pretty consistently does this thing where if I'm transferring files, it will start fast and then slow down by at least 50%. I have attached a photo of this situation. In this case, I was transferring roughly 500gb of files from a LaCie drive (7200RPM) using eSata to a Western Digital drive 2.5in external drive using USB3. to about 70% of the transfer I was getting 80mb/s transfer speeds, then it drops to roughly 26mb/s for the remainder. This hasn't just happened on my laptop, on my new desktop running W8 Pro, the same thing can occur.
Is there a reason for this? Is it a windows thing, or a hardware thing? I find it does it on USB keys as well - starts quick, then quickly drops to about 20% of the speed.
Any help in figuring out what causes this would be great! thanks!
James
I am curious about windows 8 transfer speeds. I'm currently running a Dell XPS 1647 (mid 2010 model) with a USB 3 card from Startech installed in the expressport. It works great, but windows pretty consistently does this thing where if I'm transferring files, it will start fast and then slow down by at least 50%. I have attached a photo of this situation. In this case, I was transferring roughly 500gb of files from a LaCie drive (7200RPM) using eSata to a Western Digital drive 2.5in external drive using USB3. to about 70% of the transfer I was getting 80mb/s transfer speeds, then it drops to roughly 26mb/s for the remainder. This hasn't just happened on my laptop, on my new desktop running W8 Pro, the same thing can occur.
Is there a reason for this? Is it a windows thing, or a hardware thing? I find it does it on USB keys as well - starts quick, then quickly drops to about 20% of the speed.
Any help in figuring out what causes this would be great! thanks!
James
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- i7 4770K
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte
- Memory
- 32Gb Patriot 1600mhz RAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- Zotec GTX770 Pro 2Gb
- Hard Drives
- 480GB Sandisk Extreme II SSD - OS/Programs/
3TB Seagate 7200 - Files/
2x1TB seagate 7200 drives - RAID 0 array for Video projects/
2tb WD Black 7200 drive - Backup of RAID 0 array