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    Recent XPS (L702X) USB 3.0 Experience w/ 3.0 Ext Drive

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by rausa, Jun 19, 2011.

  1. rausa

    rausa Notebook Enthusiast

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    Greetings,

    I was one of the early ones having issues with the 3.0 slots. My Thumbdrive (2.0) and the wireless dongle were having issues (not working properly) primarily upon the computer reawakening. A reboot would seem to fix it. I moved the dongle to a 2.0 slot and has been working fine since.

    Opened up a USB 3.0 WD My Book Essential 3TB External Drive today and connected it up to the 3.0 slot. Must say, it has been working as advertised right out of the box. I've experienced up to 90mb/s transfer rate and the drive has gone to sleep and rewoke by itself and the drive has operated as expected after the laptop has gone to sleep and rewoke.

    I am not using the WD software. BTW...the Windows Backup won't produce an Image for stoage on the drive.
     
    rausa, Jun 19, 2011
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    rausa Notebook Enthusiast

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    Update...

    Prior to shutting down for the night, when going through the Safely Remove/Eject, Windows came back with a nasty gram saying that a program was using it so it wouldn't eject. Went ahead and shut down the computer.

    This morning, turned the computer on, the lights flashed on the Waves buttons above the keyboard, and turned off. Didn't even get to the Dell screen. Tried again...same thing.

    Disconnected the HD, turned computer on and it booted normally. Plugged the drive in and it is performing normally.

    Weird?!?
     
    rausa, Jun 20, 2011
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    beertha Notebook Geek

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    Sounds like the same exact problems I was getting until Dell replaced my motherboard and daughterboards.
    I was getting failed transfers with any Harddrive, Thumbdrive etc for the back USB 3.0 ports.
    Whenever I would try to safely eject any device from those ports a "Device is currently in use by another program" pop up would prevent removal of the device.
    This would always be the case until you perform a reboot.
    Next time it fails to transfer, run the PC Checkup program that came with the Laptop and you should get a PCI express module failure like I did.
     
    beertha, Jun 20, 2011
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