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I'm using my External Samsung S3 2TB USB3.0 hard drive and transfering several GB of files onto it via the MSI A88XI AC's USB 3.0 ports on my Silverstone case. But I get AWFUL speeds? All my drivers are up to date but the fastest I have ever seen is 10mb and that was USB3 harddrive to USB 3 Memory Stick. My current 9.59gb transfer from my internal harddrive to USB 3 hard drive is going at a pathetic 1.09MB?

What can I do to speed this up?

Is the data you are trying to transfer in a few large files, or thousands of small files? Small files can be very slow to copy because of meta-data overhead, as discussed in this thread.

It could also be that write caching is disabled for the drive. See this discussion at superuser for how to enable it.

Ah crap. Yeah its thousands of smaller files and in-game images. I'm going to be here for a while then lol

If you have room, it is often faster to 7zip the files needed to be transferred into one 7z file and then copy and extract. It will also avoid windows quitting the copy should a invalid file be found.

DBofficial wrote:

Ah crap. Yeah its thousands of smaller files and in-game images. I'm going to be here for a while then lol

Enabling write caching will still help, if it is currently off. The extreme slowness you're experiencing leads me to believe that you're being "had" by both issues.