...pci card on my computer. It is SOOOO slow at defragging and also when I transfer files from internal drives to it , it takes and AGE. If I buy a USB 2.0 pci card and connect the External Drive to it , will this speed things up ? On the box the External Drive says it can get speeds upto 480MB but right now im only getting a brain numbing 10 to 20MB. Any reply's/advice is most welcomed. Thanks!
2007-03-04 21:56:12 · 2 answers · asked by geo . 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Got a USB 2.0 and things are a lot quicker , thanks for all reply's.
2007-03-07 00:39:19 · update #1
Yes a USB 2.0 adapter will speed it up.
2007-03-04 22:02:01 · answer #1 · answered by Robert W 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it's not just because it needs to be USB 2.0 why not just try to format your external hard drive mathematically correct and you might be amazed!
The thing about NTFS is it always formats with its default Allocation Unit Size 4K=4,096bytes wich is so wrong! No offence but i know you have no idea what i am talking about! And in your case if the drive is 160 GB then it's supposed to be formated with 128K=131,072bytes!
I see a tremendues difference between those numbers!!!
Just visit the websites below for more information!
http://computersguide.blogspot.com/2007/02/format-from-fat32-to-ntfs.html
http://computersguide.blogspot.com/2007/02/allocation-unit-size_16.html
2007-03-05 07:33:09 · answer #2 · answered by dabedatiludlisi 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋