New
#1
Seagate Backup Plus USB drive - speed discrepency
Hello -
I have this 1TB USB drive currently attached to my PC and it's working normally.
By this I mean no errors and reasonable performance. It's USB 3 capable,
but the motherboard is USB 2 only.
The system is recent but modest, AMD FX 4300 paired with an ASRock 960GC-GS FX motherboard.
If I copy big files from the internal HDD to the Seagate in Windows 10 I get about 27 MB p/s
It took 30 seconds to copy an 800MB file.
However, on the same PC, using a recent Linux ( Peppermint OS based on Ubuntu) I see speeds
almost double @ 50-52 MB p/s and it took about 16 seconds to copy the same file
That's a massive difference. According to this, the Linux is achieving speeds close the theoretical maximum:
usb - Whats the maximum typical speed possible with a USB2.0 drive? - Super User
If this is so, then I have to ask, why is it slow in Windows 10 ?