I'm puzzled by the fact that the transfer rates between my two WD 1Tb hard drives is so vastly different - nearly half the one way compared to the other.
The one drive is a removable backup on a USB3 port and benchmarks at over 120Mb/s, the other is a WD Blue, an internal drive, which benchmarks at about 180Mb/s. When I transfer from the external to the internal I get nearly 120Mb/s but when I transfer from the internal to the external I only get about half that, with the result that backups take much longer than they should.
But the really strange thing to me is that this was not the case when the external was FAT32. I reformatted it NTFS because FAT32 gave me hassles with big files.
Does anyone have any insight on this? Should I go back to FAT32 for the external?
(I'm on Win7)
The one drive is a removable backup on a USB3 port and benchmarks at over 120Mb/s, the other is a WD Blue, an internal drive, which benchmarks at about 180Mb/s. When I transfer from the external to the internal I get nearly 120Mb/s but when I transfer from the internal to the external I only get about half that, with the result that backups take much longer than they should.
But the really strange thing to me is that this was not the case when the external was FAT32. I reformatted it NTFS because FAT32 gave me hassles with big files.
Does anyone have any insight on this? Should I go back to FAT32 for the external?
(I'm on Win7)