[SOLVED] New Portable HDD very slow ?

[Ilan25000]

Hi people, Yesterday, I received my Seagate 5tb portable hdd and when I try to write anything on it, it goes slow, really slow. Is there a reason for this? Did I get a bad drive? I'll post my benchmark below this. it makes absolutely no sense, would I be better off buying a WD elements portable 5tb hdd for the same price?

https://imgur.com/a/OLGL1ha

View: https://imgur.com/a/OLGL1ha

https://imgur.com/a/9cbnxda

View: https://imgur.com/a/9cbnxda


I've seen people test these drives and they seemed to copy, download and install at 100mb/s while I am stuck at 2... I hope someone knows If I should return it to get a new one, or if I should just get the WD drive. Thanks in advance.

 

[Bob.B]

Hi people, Yesterday, I received my Seagate 5tb portable hdd and when I try to write anything on it, it goes slow, really slow. Is there a reason for this? Did I get a bad drive? I'll post my benchmark below this. it makes absolutely no sense, would I be better off buying a WD elements portable 5tb hdd for the same price?

https://imgur.com/a/OLGL1ha

View: https://imgur.com/a/OLGL1ha

https://imgur.com/a/9cbnxda

View: https://imgur.com/a/9cbnxda


I've seen people test these drives and they seemed to copy, download and install at 100mb/s while I am stuck at 2... I hope someone knows If I should return it to get a new one, or if I should just get the WD drive. Thanks in advance.

For a hdd that looks ok.

 

[Ilan25000]

For a hdd that looks ok.

I have had experience with other drives and this looks absolutely horrid, I'm just wondering whether it's a defect or whether seagate drives are just really slow.

 

[Bob.B]

I have had experience with other drives and this looks absolutely horrid, I'm just wondering whether it's a defect or whether seagate drives are just really slow.

140/150MB/s is pretty good for a hdd.

 

[Ilan25000]

140/150MB/s is pretty good for a hdd.

It's not actually doing 150 though, as shown in the second picture, most of the time it just sits at 750kb/s-30mb/s

 

[Bob.B]

It's not actually doing 150 though, as shown in the second picture, most of the time it just sits at 750kb/s-30mb/s

Perhaps that has something to do with the source or the pipeline going to the ext.

 

[mdd1963]

transferring lots of individual small files will have average speeds dragged down into the weeds sometimes...

(Naturally, if the CMR/SMR debacle enters the question, the SMR drives have of the slowest sustained writes since floppies!)

 

[USAFRet]

"10,184 files" is the issue.

Transferring 10k files WILL be much much slower than a single file of the same aggregated size.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

As a test, try copying a single, very large file to it from the same source drive and you should see a much faster sustained write speed.