Hey all, I have a WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive that has been transferring files amazingly slow.
For example, I am trying to transfer a 1.85GB movie in .mp4 format from my iMac to the external drive, and it has been running for about 4 hours now and is only 1.23GB into it. It is like this when trying to transfer any and all files.
Our WD Mybook 3tb transfers files super fast compared to this, via USB 2.0 as well.
Any ideas on what could be the culprit? I’ve read about stopping Spotlight from indexing the drive, and have set that up, but to no avail.
I ran the Verify and Repair option on the drive and got this after about 45 seconds:
Verifying and repairing partition map for “WD Ext HDD 1021 Media” Checking prerequisites Checking the partition list Checking for an EFI system partition Checking the EFI system partition’s size Checking the EFI system partition’s file system Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces Reviewing boot support loaders Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions Updating Windows boot.ini files as required The partition map appears to be OK
And then tried it on the (single?) partition, which took a bit longer, and got this:
Verify and Repair volume “XXXX”
Checking file system
Checking non-journaled HFS Plus Volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume XXXX appears to be OK.
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
