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Can you help me /g/?
I'm trying to copy shit on my external drive and it starts out fine at a transfer rate of around 100mb/s
But about quarter of the way in it just drops to 2mb/s for absolutely no reason
Now as you can imagine, copying hundreds of gigabytes at this speed is fucking ridiculous, which is why I'm here
I've checked the drive with various programs, no bad sectors and read/write speeds show up fine, so I have no clue as to what the problem should be
Any ideas?
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Sounds like it's the port/bus you're using to connect your drive to your PC. At least, that's the next thing I would consider.
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>>61293160
Is your external drive encrypted?
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>>61293170
Well, it is USB3.0 and the drive is 3.0, not only that this problem hasn't occurred on other drives
>>61293179
Nope
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>>61293160
I had a similar problem with Seagate drives a while back. They were not using more than a small portion of their cache, initial transfer speeds were fine then slowed to a crawl. Had to update the hard drive firmware and that fixed it.
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>>61293160
Just in case.
Fire up ddrescue and pull a raw image of the drive elsewhere. Onto your new one.
Don't put your shit at risk with mechanical failure.
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