Hi
I have a My Book 2TB external harddrive that we’ve used to store all of our family photos and videos. I’ve recently noticed that it takes a lot of time to copy a file from this hard drive to another drive (USB stick or internal drive on my computer). I bought a new harddrive to replace this one and have started transferring our information from the old drive to the new one but it’s taking a lot of time.
Computer Specs
OS - Windows 10
Intel (R) Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHZ 2.67GHZ
Ram - 12GB
64 bit OS
IHD - Samsung SSD 840 Pro Series ATA device
This morning I started to move the information and a 3g folder took almost 2 hours to transfer. I started a second folder with approximately 7g and it looks like it’s going to take 5 hours to transfer. When I click the drop down for more details in the copy window it shows that the speed is very erratic. It drops to 0 bytes/s and then increases to up to 5mb/s and then drops back to 0 bytes/s. Each time that the transfer stops my computer makes the disconnect/reconnect hardware sound.
It appears that the transferred data is ok as I can open the files that I transferred this morning. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this and if so is there a solution or is this a faulty hard drive.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.