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From: Charliec on 8 Sep 2008 16:57
I purchased the external WD Essential 320GB to replace my external WD
80GB drive. When launching programs from the Essential, it is very
slow compared to the WD 80GB drive I replaced. Both drives are
external and connected via a USB2.0 port.

What can I do to speed up the access to the program launching and
other accessing to the WD Essential 320GB external drive?

Thanks for any tips/suggestions/

Charliec
******************************************************
Charliec
From: Arno Wagner on 8 Sep 2008 23:46
Previously Charliec <charliec(a)invalid.address.com> wrote:
> I purchased the external WD Essential 320GB to replace my external WD
> 80GB drive. When launching programs from the Essential, it is very
> slow compared to the WD 80GB drive I replaced. Both drives are
> external and connected via a USB2.0 port.

> What can I do to speed up the access to the program launching and
> other accessing to the WD Essential 320GB external drive?

You cannot really. However, you may have a misconfiguration
or other error that you can clean up. Check whether the device
is actually running as USB 2.0.

Arno
From: Bob Willard on 9 Sep 2008 06:15
Charliec wrote:

> I purchased the external WD Essential 320GB to replace my external WD
> 80GB drive. When launching programs from the Essential, it is very
> slow compared to the WD 80GB drive I replaced. Both drives are
> external and connected via a USB2.0 port.
>
> What can I do to speed up the access to the program launching and
> other accessing to the WD Essential 320GB external drive?
>
> Thanks for any tips/suggestions/
>
> Charliec
> ******************************************************
> Charliec

FWIW, I measured the read speed of my 500GB MyBook, using HDtach, at
~29 MB/s across the whole 500GB. USB 2.0 on a 3GHz P4 under XP SP3.
--
Cheers, Bob
From: mscotgrove on 9 Sep 2008 07:04
On Sep 9, 11:15 am, Bob Willard <BobwB...(a)TrashThis.comcast.net>
wrote:
> Charliec wrote:
> > I purchased the external WD Essential 320GB to replace my external WD
> > 80GB drive.  When launching programs from the Essential, it is very
> > slow compared to the WD 80GB drive I replaced.  Both drives are
> > external and connected via a USB2.0 port.
>
> > What can I do to speed up the access to the program launching and
> > other accessing to the WD Essential 320GB external drive?
>
> > Thanks for any tips/suggestions/
>
> > Charliec
> > ******************************************************
> > Charliec
>
> FWIW, I measured the read speed of my 500GB MyBook, using HDtach, at
> ~29 MB/s across the whole 500GB.  USB 2.0 on a 3GHz P4 under XP SP3.
> --
> Cheers, Bob

Is the new drive FAT32 or NTFS. Some drives are still shipped as
FAT32 to be Mac compatible

Do you have the drive properties set for performance or quick
removal? Quick removal can be slow


Michael
www.cnwrecovery.com
From: Bob Willard on 9 Sep 2008 10:54
mscotgrove(a)aol.com wrote:
> On Sep 9, 11:15 am, Bob Willard <BobwB...(a)TrashThis.comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Charliec wrote:
>>
>>>I purchased the external WD Essential 320GB to replace my external WD
>>>80GB drive. When launching programs from the Essential, it is very
>>>slow compared to the WD 80GB drive I replaced. Both drives are
>>>external and connected via a USB2.0 port.
>>
>>>What can I do to speed up the access to the program launching and
>>>other accessing to the WD Essential 320GB external drive?
>>
>>>Thanks for any tips/suggestions/
>>
>>>Charliec
>>>******************************************************
>>>Charliec
>>
>>FWIW, I measured the read speed of my 500GB MyBook, using HDtach, at
>>~29 MB/s across the whole 500GB. USB 2.0 on a 3GHz P4 under XP SP3.
>>--
>>Cheers, Bob
>
>
> Is the new drive FAT32 or NTFS. Some drives are still shipped as
> FAT32 to be Mac compatible
>
> Do you have the drive properties set for performance or quick
> removal? Quick removal can be slow
>
>
> Michael
> www.cnwrecovery.com

My MyBook arrived with FAT32, and I immediately reformatted it to NTFS.
It is set for quick removal, since I only use it for backup and remove it
when the backup is done.
--
Cheers, Bob
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