External hard drive transfer speeds at 0 bytes/s

[Jahoki]

I just bought an 8TB Seagate BackupPlus Hub to transfer all of my files from my other hard drives but already when transferring about 1.24TB from a FreeAgent Drive, the speed is at 0 bytes/s and only goes up higher than that to about 300kb for a few seconds before dropping back down to 0 every few minutes. I'm really not sure what to do and desperate looking for advice on how to fix this. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Backup software might be the problem, maybe you're compressing, maybe you're heavily fragmented, or all your files are <4kb. Could be many things. Transfer smaller chunks at a time, or use real software like rsync, or just wait and be patient.

 

[Lkaos]

Have you tried transfering your files by dragging them or using copy + paste to see if the problem persists?