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Slow speeds (40mb/s) from Crucial X6 on USB 3 port?
I'm running an Asus b350m TUF board, and I just got hold of a Crucial X6 USB SSD, and when I ran crystaldiskmark on it, the read and write speeds were around 40-44mb/s, nothing higher. Random 4k ...
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How do I monitor the performance of USB peripherals on Windows 10?
I'm trying to monitor the performance of a USB DVD player/writer on Windows 10. I'm mainly interested in basic metrics like bytes read and written per second and latency. So far I'm not finding any ...
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Will an SSD external drive be faster than an HDD external drive on USB 3.0?
I have a Retina MacBook Pro Mid-2014 with a 256GB drive, which is small for my needs so I need to use an external Hard Drive.
I'm using a WD 4TB My Passport where I store a lot of pictures and videos, ...
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Copy To USB 3 Drive Start With Highest Speed But Then Significantly Decreases
I have large files that I need to copy to my USB 3.0 external drive. It's a HDD with enclosure.
The problem is the copy speed. When the copy start it start at 110+ MBps, but after few seconds it goes ...
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Does USB version speed matter for input devices?
We know that USB v1 - v2 -v3 has different features and signal/transfer speed, I understand that storage devices will most likely benefit from the speed feature, but does the speed affect input ...
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Evaluating hdd speed: data transfer rate vs internal data rate
I have two Seagate disks a 2T st2000lm007 (2.5) and a 3T ST3000DM008 (3.5). I have a choice between mounting one as a USB 3.0 external and the other as an internal.
Is there an advantage either way? ...
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Actual sequential writing speed to USB 3.1 SSD far below benchmark data
I have a single 5.5GB file on a slow internal SATA-3 magnetic HDD. Windows 10 claims that disk is only "1%" fragmented. The sequential read performance is around 95 MB per second according to crystal ...
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Extremely slow speeds when tethering via usb
I finished building my new gaming PC today. Since my phone's (Galaxy S9) internet is usually much faster than my house's internet, I tethered it to my new computer. However, I'm experiencing much, ...
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Is there a USB file copy protocol that makes zip file copy faster?
I apologise that I cannot provide any source other than mentioning a quote from my friend. (This is almost a question for skeptics.stackexchange) He said there is a protocol because of which copying a ...
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Slow transfer speeds between one HDD and USB3 external drive
I'm transferring a handful of files from an internal HDD to an external HDD over USB3.0, but find that I'm getting nowhere near USB3 speeds.
The drive is definitely USB3 (Seagate STEB6000403) and ...
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USB-to-PS/2 adapter
I have a follow up questions from a Q&A I was reading-up, PS/2 vs. USB keyboards: performance and energy consumption.
I have a USB-to-PS/2 adapter. I can attach it to a USB port on my computer ...
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How to increase RAM using a USB as RAM memory?
I'm using Ubuntu, a Linux distro.
I read some years ago about the possibility to increase the RAM by using a pen-drive USB as additional memory RAM.
I already googled that but I found only articles ...
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Will Compressing an Entire USB Flash Drive Actually Increase Performance? [duplicate]
As we know, USB flash drives are generally very slow in data transfer rates. USB 3 has significantly increased the rates data transfers, but it's still much slower than even traditional mechanical ...
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What is the performance penalty of chaining USB hubs?
USB hubs with lots of ports (7 or 10) often consist of chained 4-port hubs. I wonder how good the performance of the various ports of those hubs is.
Specifically I'm thinking about mass storage ...
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Windows 10 USB bottlenecking
I have a 128gb MacBook Pro and I wanted to run Windows for gaming. Because I have 128gb (and Boot Camp requires 50gb of internal hard drive space), I decided to run Windows from external USB. It boots ...
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