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Probably so; USB 2.0 is only so fast. The portable is a relic left over from when I used netbooks, which don't have an optical drive. The only time I use it now is when I'm ripping a CD that doesn't want to rip in in the internal drive, which is pretty rare. I suspect it works when the internal one doesn't because of its slower speed but I never bothered to try slowing down the internal one since the external one works for that.