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Geek Culture / My USB HDD is only working on USB1.1!

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GamerDude
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 12:03 Edited at: 29th Oct 2009 12:33
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I have a Toshiba MK2552GSX USB HDD and it is only copying at 900kbps. I have tried everything and it is just out of control slow. It takes about 30mins to copy 700mb. This has all my work on it and i cant use it when its this slow. Please help, ive searched everywhere to find nothing that helps.

When I plug the additional power connector, it goes upto 5mbps, but thats still quite slow for what I want to do.

thanks

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Benjamin
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 12:37
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Uh... maybe it only supports USB 1.1?

You really haven't given us a lot of information to work with.
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 13:08
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Are you sure the port you are using is USB 2.0 and you have your USB drivers installed? All systems should have a 1.0 port too, really, for backwards compatability in the case of software not supporting 2.0. For instance, the left port on an Eee is actually 1.0 despite all three being marked 2.0.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 13:17
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Quote: "All systems should have a 1.0 port too, really, for backwards compatability in the case of software not supporting 2.0"


I don't think the software itself has to handle backwards compatibility. As for the ports themselves, they are backwards and forwards compatible.
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 13:29 Edited at: 29th Oct 2009 13:29
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The drivers do. Much of USB's structure is handled by drivers/software if I remember correctly.

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GamerDude
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 13:44
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It is a 250gb hdd, i thought you could tell that by the model number. It does support USB 2.0, and this system I am on is all default from the manufacturer so it must have the drivers installed.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 13:51
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Try another port. And googling the model only shows the hard drive itself, not the enclosure that actually contains the USB controller.

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GamerDude
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Posted: 29th Oct 2009 23:47
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In the past I have been able to copy at 25mbps, now it slowed right down. Could this mean the HDD is dying?

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Posted: 30th Oct 2009 02:02
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Download your latest motherboard drivers.
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