Extremely Slow USB external WD640Gb drive?

NTeyeball · 11-23-2008, 07:56 PM

Hey all,
I have a compaq w4000 evo, 2Gb RAM, and have recently purchased this Western Digital 640Gb external drive which was originally formatted Fat,
I re-formatted (quick) to NTFS, and proceeded to transfer data to it, having left it alone for like 6 hours, I returned to find that only 2 video files had been transferred and was still working on the rest.

I have also a 32Gb external which transfers nearly at the same rate as to Local disc. Have I done wrong in doing a quick NTFS format??
Can there be another explanation for this ultra slow transfer rate?

Thnx guys
NT

Techie19 · 11-24-2008, 04:56 AM

I could be wrong, but I think that FAT is quicker than NTFS.so if I am correct, this could be the reason of why its taking so long to transfer files.

11-23-2008, 07:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
NTeyeball Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: NT.Australia Posts: 42 OS: Vista Basic, XP Home SP3, Win98se	Extremely Slow USB external WD640Gb drive? Hey all, I have a compaq w4000 evo, 2Gb RAM, and have recently purchased this Western Digital 640Gb external drive which was originally formatted Fat, I re-formatted (quick) to NTFS, and proceeded to transfer data to it, having left it alone for like 6 hours, I returned to find that only 2 video files had been transferred and was still working on the rest. I have also a 32Gb external which transfers nearly at the same rate as to Local disc. Have I done wrong in doing a quick NTFS format?? Can there be another explanation for this ultra slow transfer rate? Thnx guys NT

11-24-2008, 04:56 AM	#2 (permalink)
Techie19 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Elizabeth, NJ Posts: 177 OS: XP Media Center SP3 My System	Re: Extremely Slow USB external WD640Gb drive? I could be wrong, but I think that FAT is quicker than NTFS.so if I am correct, this could be the reason of why its taking so long to transfer files.