# 3TB My Book Essentials SUPER SLOW!

**URL:** <https://forums.sandisk.com/t/3tb-my-book-essentials-super-slow/250808>\
**Category:** External SSD for Windows\
**Created:** [May 10, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/3tb-my-book-essentials-super-slow/250808 "2012-05-10T20:32:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Gorphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gorphin](https://forums.sandisk.com/u/Gorphin)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/3tb-my-book-essentials-super-slow/250808/1 "2012-05-10T20:32:41Z")

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My transfer rate is at a crawl. Average is 250kb/s. I’m pretty sure it’s te drive itself. IAny recommendations on what to do. It is still in warrenty. I don’t want to lose the data i have stored though

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**Author:** ![Awopero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@Awopero](https://forums.sandisk.com/u/Awopero)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 1:37pm UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/3tb-my-book-essentials-super-slow/250808/2 "2012-05-11T13:37:12Z")

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Hello Mate,

- Did you already test your drive on another computer?

- How about the USb cable?

- Did you installs the USB 3.0 drivers?

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**Author:** ![Gorphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gorphin](https://forums.sandisk.com/u/Gorphin)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/3tb-my-book-essentials-super-slow/250808/3 "2012-05-12T18:01:42Z")

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I will test the drive on another computer tomorrow, and i just ordered 2 new USB 3.0 cables from Monoprice. As for drivers… it says the SES driver is installed on this hard drive. I have 2, 2TB element drives and tranfer rates between those 2 are at 11mb/s.