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External HDD
I have a 500 GB external hard drive. And about 7 months ago I had a problem with the partition table or something so the HDD wasnt recognized. I used a tool called testdisk to rewrite it and it started working again, although it takes about 20 - 30 seconds to be recognized before I can explore it. The problem Im having is that transfering big files is incredibly slow.
A 700 MB file I can expect it to take 45 minutes to copy. At first, when copying the file I get 60 MB speeds but it drops significantly over the next 10 seconds going down to 20 and down to 1 MB/s, and then it just gets slower 500 kb/s, 400 kb/s. If i wait a bit after a file copy is done, it starts off at 60 MB/s again, if I run it directly after, it will be starting at 10-20 MB/s. I ran a chkdisk on it using the windows gui and theres nothing wrong it says. Im defragging it now. Other than drive failing or what ever, is there anything else that could explain the significant drop in speeds.