Q: Slow transfer speed to external hard drive
Hello:
I have an external hard drive WD My Passport Elements and it was working fine until I formatted it a couple days ago to create an extra partition. Since then, it takes forever to transfer files to the hard drive, but everything seems fine when I transfer from it.
I've tried re-formatting it a few times. At first, it works fine until I get an error code -36 when transferring any random file. After I get the error message, it starts working slow again.
Every time I run DiskWarrior, over 40% of the files are out of order. Rebuilding the directories hasn't fixed the problem either.
It's not my computer or the USB ports because my other external hard drive works perfectly. I've also tried using the slow hard drive in a different computer and it doesn't work any faster.
I'm running OS X 10.8.2.
Thanks in advance for any help.
MacBook (13-inch), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Posted on Feb 21, 2015 4:38 AM