I bought a 2TB WD My Passport few days ago for my Macbook. Before doing anything, I installed the Turbo drive in that external drive. The problem here is even i plug in 3.0 port, the transfer rate is quite slow compare to what i read on Internet. The maximum I could reach when copying a folder of …

Slow USB 3.0

WD External Drives External Drives for Mac

Alucardx23 January 19, 2013, 9:31pm 2

35MB/s is a USB 2.0 transfer rate, check if you really are using a USB 3.0 port, if possible try connecing the passport to another USB 3.0 port on another Mac.