I do a lot of things I know are risky with my PCs because I can recover from them with backups, and while I do break things, I also learn from it. I always use incrementals where possible, and whether I was using True Image, Aomei Backupper, Macrium Reflect, or Veeam, I’ve always been able to restore them, and I’ve restored a lot. If you do mostly incremental backups, backups can be quite speedy even with a HDD. I’ve had HDDs that haven’t been used in 15 years that can be plugged in and used with no read errors. Magnetic hard drives retain their data much longe,r. SSDs can supposedly start to forget their data in a year or two of unpowered storage (more so if the drive is stored in hot conditions, but less so if the drive was written under hot conditions). It’s still not ideal to use a SSD for backups, though, even if write limits are not an issue, if the drive is to be left in unpowered storage for extended periods of time. That’s too short for my liking, in that case.
If you wrote a full 1TB backup image every day, you could use up the 1TB 860 QVO’s rated life in a year. If you use incremental images and there is not much change on the drive(s) being backed up, it could last a really long time. It would depend, of course, on how much writing you’re actually doing. Narrowing that down will suggest the next step! If that’s not it, either the adapter is really USB 2.0, or the USB port is USB 2.0.
Win 8 and 10 should work with USB 3 out of the box.
The OS doesn’t do this automatically… if you don’t manually install them, it operates at USB 2.0 speed.
If this is Windows 7, it could be that your USB 3.0 drivers are not installed.
For whatever reason, your USB connection is operating at USB 2.0 speed. That performance you’re seeing is typical of a USB 2.0 connection.
There is probably some kind of caching program in use, perhaps Samsung RAPID mode from Magician.Īs for the other one, those numbers are slow even for an external conventional hard drive. The 860 Evo is a SATA SSD, but you’re showing numbers far higher than the fastest NVMe drive currently available. Those numbers are problematic in both cases. I ran CrystalDiskMark and the difference between my System drive Samsung SSD 860 EVO and the USB drive, Samsung SSD 860 QVO is absolutely massive, but it seems I can’t post screenshots here… Thanks ran CrystalDiskMark and the difference between my System drive Samsung SSD 860 EVO and the USB drive, Samsung SSD 860 QVO is absolutely massive, but it seems I can’t post screenshots here… If you would like to know more about this see the link I’ve tried those ideas and perhaps there was a very small improvement but not significant. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that some of those audio files are extremely high bit rate 24bit or 32bit floating point resolution making them double the size of a. Thanks the antivirus makes no difference and I’m not at the moment able to test in a USB 3.1 enclosure.Īnother odd thing, the the copy/paste process hangs for sometime when it hits large audio files and sometimes does not recover freezing the File Explorer. Maybe I’ll tinker around and see if I can improve things a bit. Firstly, thank you all for your input, ‘much appreciated but I’m reaching the point where I think I’ll just leave this issue for now.