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    Question External HDD R/W Speed Varies Greatly. Why?

    What confuses me is that only 100 MB of the 4 GB Ext HDD is used. I thought that since the drive would fill up from the outside tracks to the inside thid would result in a new drive showing only one speed. Here I get a high R/W speed with the occasional low R/W speed. I think I'm going to keep...
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    Question External HDD R/W Speed Varies Greatly. Why?

    A new Silicon Power A62 4 TB USB external HDD read/write speeds of 125/115 MB/sec per CrystalDiskMark 8 but occasionally reports 45/40 MB/Sec. This occur with two different PCs. The drive inside the case is by Western Digital and WD's Dashboard reports everything is normal. Silicon Power's...