Im thinking about buying my book live 3t, but i read a lot of complaints of slow transport. Honestly speaking, when your usb transfer speed is slow, the most effective way to boost the transfer speed is to improve the transfer speed of the usb port. Western digital has been selling these external storage devices with the highest storage capacity drives in their class for some time now the 3. Jun 18, 20 hi all, ive recently bought a 3tb wd my book live. The speed was 30 mbsec which is ok to me given my pc is only usb 2. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. This isnt a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list. After upgrade to win10x64, that transfer speed drops down to no more than 80 mbs require several reboots. Raid 0 is, as youd expect, the faster of the two, having an average large file transfer speed of 32. Learn how to increase the transfer speed of an external hard drive.
The range of scores 95th 5th percentile for the wd my book 1230 4tb is 44. This file transfer time calculator is used to determine the approximate time that a file would take to transfer over a particular interface. File transfer on readyshare is soooooo slow netgear communities. The only device on my network thats suffering from slow speeds is the my book live, it has a slow speed regardless of the sending device even the ethernet laptop. In the aja system test, the drive clocked a write speed of 235. Performance benchmarks western digital my book 8tb and. When i try to copy files from laptop to my external drives, the speed fluctuates frequently. The external hard drive is meant to give your computer more room for storing and running files, especially for large size of videos, photos, photoshop, etc. While wd says that the my book live is capable of data transfer speeds up to 10mbps, our actual lab tests generated much more believable numbers. Speed up wd external hard drive slow transfer rate easeus. Its 5 gbps data transfer rate enables fast copying of files, and its automatic backup software can be set to fit any schedule. Apr, 2012 western digital ships the my book thunderbolt duo in raid0 for maximum thunderbolt speed, though it can be configured for raid1 should a user prefer redundancy of data to sheer performance. Wd my book desktop is a storage device that can store a high volume of data from cloud backup and local backup.
On the synthetic benchmark crystaldiskmark, the my book registered sequential read and write speeds of 153. When i transfer data from my hard drive to the external hard disk, the transfer speed is very slow. Book transfer is a way to eliminate check clearing float. Our real world testing of the western digital my book 3.
Performance benchmarks western digital my book 8tb and my. There is a copy buffer stuff gets read into memory from the source storage, then. My setup is transferring from a pc with ac1900 adapter tplink archer t9e to a pc connected to gigabit port. At first could be several minutes or even an hour or more the transfer rate shows as about 30mbs, at which rate it would be complete in 34 hours. Why does copying files start fast then slow down so. Forum forum my book world edition blue rings too slow file transfer started by. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the wd my book 1230 4tb performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions. I have recently upgraded my laptop from windows 7 to windows 10. This becomes a tidious process as it takes very long time to transfer hugh datas. Receive an email notification when this product becomes available.
If you have a wd mycloud or mybook live nas, you can connect to it via ftp to transfer files much faster than the normal windows explorer network transfer. Wd my book home transfer diagrams external storage. These scores were smoked by the drivestations 320 mbps random read and 389. When writing a 10gb file, the drives transfer speed was 201 mbps, and 184 mbps to read the. I tested the 8tb version of the drive and via usb 3. Western digital my book 8tb and my passport 4tb external hdds. Its connected via ethernet to the hub that virgin supply with their 60mb cable service. In addition, change the default hardware settings for better performance. If i upload to the drive data is copied at around 3mbsec downloading from the. Very slow transfer rate to 56 year old wd mybook live. The my book reported a random read speed in 512k blocks of 52 mbps and an 88 mbps random write speed. The my book desktop solution is back by a 2year limited warranty. There is a copy buffer stuff gets read into memory from the source storage, then written to the target storage, which is checked against the buffer in memory for errors, then the next block of data is read, so at first about 2x the final rate is being transferred, but when the buffer is reading new stuff and checking the last block that has. Slow transfer speed external drives for pc wd community.
The max speed of the transfer will not be determined by the port the wd device is connected to, but by how fast the wifi service can connect. Western digital 6tb my book desktop external hard driveusb 3. When i transfer files from my computer to the drive, the transfer rate speed is sooo slow. In case of external hard disk, the copy speed reaches to 810 mbs and instantly drops down to 0 bytes. I purchased a wd my cloud, and i am getting very s. Slow wireless speeds in surface book 2 microsoft community.
The my book duo drive is desktop raid storage with massive capacity ideal for storing photos, videos, documents and music. The connection was easy but im having problems withh trasnfer speed. This means it wont work with computers that only have a usbc port, like. The flash hardwares internal speed, the interface usb 1, 2, 3, etc. Quick little speed test on my new wd my book usb 3. Wd external hard drive slow transfer rate and unresponsive. The transfer of funds from one deposit account to another at the same financial institution. How to see your current wifi connection speed in mac os x.
In our initial 2mb sequential benchmark, wds newly designed storage solution gave us read transfers of 171. But after a while the rate starts to go down, fluctuating between fast and slow, until it can be as little as 1mbs maximum speed, dipping lower at which rate the transfer would take weeks. I connected my book to my cloud to transfer those data there in a ssh session. Fastest external hard drive of 2020 for transfer speed freaks. Book transfer is a way to eliminate check clearing float because unlike with interbank. The drive are user accessible as well, meaning upgrades or drive swaps are easy, which is rarely the case with external hard drive storage solutions. The good the new wd my book is fast, goodlooking and supports a high level of encryption. When writing a 10gb file, the drives transfer speed.
The best solution would be to have both the devices you are completing the transfer too and from hard wired so the maximum speeds and be achieved. I find that i am experiencing very slow transfer speeds vis wifi. The first interesting comparison in the table below is between the my book with the 5400 rpm helioseal drive and the gtechnology gdrive with thunderbolt over usb 3. Oct 21, 20 the my book reported a random read speed in 512k blocks of 52 mbps and an 88 mbps random write speed. Store files securely with this 4tb western digital my book hard drive. This rate will change as you move around your house, so if youre far away from the router, the rate will change, and if youre closer, it will get higher. The random write speed is much faster than the random read speed, showcasing that the my book is focused on backup above all else. Western digital my book 8tb and my passport 4tb external. Wd 16tb my book duo desktop raid external hard drive usb 3.
Dec 16, 2016 if you have a wd mycloud or mybook live nas, you can connect to it via ftp to transfer files much faster than the normal windows explorer network transfer. Jan 25, 2014 reply to ungodly slow usb stick speeds i have a macbook pro early 2011 running high sierra version 10. However, the real transfer speed is much lower than that, which is quite frustrating. On my laptop copying between two partitions slows down to a similar speed. Below average average bench the wd my book 1230 4tb averaged 58. The 8 tb version of the western digital my book offers reliability, fast transfer speeds, and more storage than our other picks. This western digital my book hard drive offers builtin 256bit hardware encryption and optional password protection for peace of mind. Its like under 4mbs, so you can imagine how long it. I have a wd my book 6gb external hd connected to my router and i access the drive through the readyshare in windows explorer. Copy speed very slow in windows 10 microsoft community.
Slow wireless speeds in surface book 2 i have the following issue when synchronising my surface book 2 with my desktop computer via wireless. Its about 56 years old and it appears to just be flat out slow with copying files and accessing files from it. I connected my book to my desktop first to backup around 2tb of data from local drive. For a data of 1 gb transfer, it takes around 1520 mins. When i copy a file about 2tb in size from 1 disk to another the speed starts of fast say 185mbps and then drops to about 80mbps. I have both of them a 3tb my book and now a 6tb elements, they are equaly good, both with 3. It secures the files with a password and prevents unauthorized users from accessing them. Prior to win10 upgrade, on win7x64 i transfer from my usb 3. The speeds are optimistic because the actual inferface will be slowed down by overhead ex. Aug 11, 2015 prior to win10 upgrade, on win7x64 i transfer from my usb 3.
Also in case of pen drive, the copy speed reaches to 45 mbs and instantly drops down to 0 bytes. Low transfer speed on my book live 3tb my book live wd. It is thanks to this third factor that its often way faster to put lots of small files together in a zip archive then load the archive onto the flash drive, compared to loading the. The diagram shows a problem with the throughput test on the western digital my book homeperformance drops to roughly 40 mbs for reads and writes many times. The diagram shows a problem with the throughput test on the western digital my book homeperformance drops to. Im satisfied with the wired speed but i thought ac1900 is supposed to be faster than gigabit. By combining drive performance, you get up transfer speeds up to 324mbs, so you can transfer a full hd video, or your entire media collection, with ease.
Western digital 6tb my book desktop external hard drive. Wd 16tb my book duo desktop raid external hard drive usb. The transfer speeds only reach a maximum of around 30 mbsec, compared with around 70 80 mbsec on my other 7 year old laptop. The reason that i have five is because they are solid drives at an outstanding price.
Raid0 mode provides superfast performance with up to 360mbs1 sequential read speeds using the usb typec port. My book model wdbfjk0040hbknesn performance interface usb 3. Its like under 4mbs, so you can imagine how long it takes to transfer a file thats like 8gb. Dualdrive performance equipped with two wd red hdds, my book duo gives you massive capacity with twice the speed.
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