Network Sharing USB 3.0 External HD. Slow?

[EpicRed]

I have a Laptop with a 7200rpm HDD as the main OS drive, and a 2 TB USB 3.0 Toshiba external hard drive attached to it. The external hard drive holds a bunch of movie files on it ranging from 2gb to 15gb in size.

I have the external hard drive shared on the network. When copying files off the external from another computer on the network I only get speeds of 20-30mb/s.

Are my speeds being limited by the internal 7200rpm drive? Will upgrading the laptop to a SSD make a difference?

Gigabyte Network, CAT5E cables, Wired, Netgear NightHawk R7000 router. Laptop is relatively new with 8gb memory and an i7 cpu.

 

[Mattios]

The network speeds won't be relying on the main HDD so no that is not a problem.

I would suggest a problem with your router or perhaps you don't have USB 3.0 drivers.

Can't you use the USB 3.0 port on the router? That would work better I think.