


#Hard drive copy fast then slows down how to#
I have to thank this guy for the idea on how to fix this. What’s important is that it now works fine! I don’t know the exact cause of the problem, and I didn’t yet try that 1st SATA port with other hard drives, to see if the problem is with the port, or the hard drive & port combination. Find Optimize drives, right-click it and choose Properties. Press Windows + R and type services.msc in the Run window. Inappropriate USB Port If you are plugging a USB 3.0 flash drive to a USB 2.0 port, the maximum speed you will get is only 480Mbps, which is more than 10 times slower than the speed you got on a USB 3.0 port. Bingo! Instantly, I’m back transferring files at decent speeds. This one has been proven to work by many users, especially those who just upgraded from windows 7 to windows 10 and find the copy speed very slow. The common reasons that cause usb drive slow: 1. Disconnecting the SATA data cable from the first SATA port on the motherboard (where it was always connected), and connecting that same cable into the last SATA port. OS was still very slow to load, and when I did let it load, I still measured 1.5MB/s transfer speeds using HDTune… I tried reseting the CMOS, disconnecting all hard drives (IDE, USB, SATA) that were connected, except my primary drive, to no avail. I tried to think what I might have changed since it worked fine. So, I was happily copying files around on my Windows Home Server, when I noticed that the speed of the transfers were now at 1.5MB/s… Uncool, when copying similar files from the same directories was at 50-80MB/s minutes earlier.
