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    Maxtor OneTouch External, Slow Transfer rates

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Masterbassist, Feb 9, 2008.

  1. Masterbassist

    Masterbassist Notebook Consultant

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    So i was backing up a bunch of games on my Maxtor 500 Gb external Onetouch hard drive, and ive been notcing that ive been getting extremly slow transfer rates: 925kb/sec, im using a usb 2.0 port, am i doing somthing wrong here or is this a normal transfer rate?


    if it is, i might as well return the hard drive and purchase a firewire 400 drive

    im also using windows vista 64 bit
     
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Wait until Microsoft releases SP1, or download and install the SP1 RC from the Microsoft website. The service pack has a fix for the slow transfer issue.
     
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    so its a Vista issue?
    well that sucks

    is the SP1 RC the beta version or what?

    i might as well try that
     
    Masterbassist, Feb 9, 2008
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