Recent content by wireToy

I'm ok with it being a budget drive. It fulfills it's purpose as a library. Once it's full it will only be read from. I gave up on the CHKDSK. It was going to take 24 hours. So cleaned and formatted again. As you mentioned, have taken the SSD out of the USB enclosure, now have it hooked up...

This seemingly simple attempt to transfer files has already consumed copious amounts of time. Any advice on a workaround?

so i moved the hard disks over to a different computer to continue the copying. speeds were MUCH faster. so i left it going overnight. However, in the morning, the SSD was inaccessible (AGAIN!). This time, Windows told me it was a cyclic redundancy error. So i'm running CHKDSK on it now. Is...

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Oh. thanks. Will try again with Write-Caching. Have uploaded images now. (Trying to) transfer thousands of Audio WAV files and samples. Have 3 different enclosures. All 3 seem to slow down after time. The source drive is an HGST 12TB 7200RPM drive in a WD Black USB3 Enclosure.

Hi, I'm new here. I bought an 8TB Samsung 870QVO a few weeks ago. I have had an awful experience trying to copy files on to this drive. It takes forever. After 48 hours it only managed 3TB. I'm sure my 5400RPM drives perform better than this. Initially with CrystalDiskMark it was reporting...