That's right in the expected range for USB 2.0. You'll never see the 480mbit/s that USB 2 is rated for--there's a lot of overhead. I've got a nice new USB 3.0 32GB flash drive that reads at 300MB/s though...
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bino Gopal > Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 6:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] External USB to internal HDD transfer speeds check > > > So if you've seen my recent post about my secondary HDD issues you'll know > that I'm transferring a bunch of files from my USB 2.0 external enclosure (I'm > pretty sure it's 2.0 btw) to my newly installed (and apparently now working > fine) WD5000BEKT which is a WD SCorpio Black 7200 RPM 2.5" HD, apparently > using SATA I internally based on the dock I have it in... > > So I got a rock-solid 28.5 MBytes/sec on my first 16 gigs of data (mp3s) and > now I'm getting a rock-solid 24.5 MBytes/sec on misc system files I've backed > up. Multiply those by 8 to get Mbits/sec (if that's even necessary when > talking HD transfer speeds), and it's ~220-200 Mbps or so... > > So is that a good transfer speed? What's my bottleneck? Is there any way to > improve it, or not with my current system and it's innards... I just figured > there must've been folks here who've looked to tweak/improve that kind of > transfer so I thought I leverage that knowledge! ;) > > BINO > > >
