USB3 transfer speeds

espresso

It looks like Twuncle has given up on this or doesn't want to admit what he was doing wrong?

spud17

espresso wrote: »

It looks like Twuncle has given up on this or doesn't want to admit what he was doing wrong?

What a thing to say.

espresso

spud17 wrote: »

What a thing to say.

Your comment went completely over Twunc's head as expected.

He's an "IT Technician" you know!

:rotfl:

spud17

espresso wrote: »

He's an "IT Technician" you know!

:rotfl:

I do.
Whoosh!

wdw2003

I had exactly the same problem when I bought a USB 3.0 external drive. 12MB/s. After hours of reading around and updating drivers, the simple solution was to make sure that USB 3.0 was enabled in the BIOS.


It wasn't updating the BIOS that was the solution, simply the enabling. It then went to 38MB/s.

kwikbreaks

wdw2003 wrote: »

It wasn't updating the BIOS that was the solution, simply the enabling.

I can just about see the possibility if this were an add-on card in a desktop but this is a laptop shipped with USB3 ports. There should be no need at all to touch any cmos settings or update the bios for the ports to work unless the manufacturer had made a massive booboo in which case the answer would shurely be high in search results.

Whatis worth noting is that with some laptops (mine for one) not all ports are USB3. You would normally get a warning though when plugging a USB3 device into a USB2 port if there were USB3 ports available.

50Twuncle

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I can just about see the possibility if this were an add-on card in a desktop but this is a laptop shipped with USB3 ports. There should be no need at all to touch any cmos settings or update the bios for the ports to work unless the manufacturer had made a massive booboo in which case the answer would shurely be high in search results.

Whatis worth noting is that with some laptops (mine for one) not all ports are USB3. You would normally get a warning though when plugging a USB3 device into a USB2 port if there were USB3 ports available.

I have a single USB 3 port and 2 USB 2 ports on my laptop - they are all enabled (they all work) but the speeds are identical on all 3
There is no option in the BIOS to turn USB 3 on/off either
According to the Device Manager - the USB 3 hardware is OK !!
I thought that Specky might help - but USB ports don't appear on that..(as far as I can see)


JJEgan suggested crystalmark - I never install anything on my PC's that I have not seen the results of - and especially ones that appear to have a nasty addition !!


I am starting to wonder whether my drive is at fault - I have found that when plugged in to my main Win 7 PC - It "kills" the internet connection when plugged into USB 3 and also only runs at less than 15MBps as well as a similar speed on my laptop (when plugged in to any port)
So I guess that I will have to put up with it..
Thanks to (most) of you for your help.

Quiet_Spark

50Twuncle wrote: »

I am starting to wonder whether my drive is at fault - I have found that when plugged in to my main Win 7 PC - It "kills" the internet connection when plugged into USB 3 and also only runs at less than 15MBps as well as a similar speed on my laptop (when plugged in to any port)
So I guess that I will have to put up with it..

I have an old Iomega USB2 interface that currently sports a 500GB Toshiba HDD from an old L300D laptop, and when I connect it to my R630-155 it easily hits 17 - 20 Mbps write and 35+ Mbps read speeds
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find it is down to the actual electronics in the USB part of the interface causing the problem rather than the drive itself (especially if a cheapy from the bay, etc).

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50Twuncle

It was a cheapy from PC World - and just ignore them....