This drive is advertised with a Transfer Rate of 5Gbp/s which equals 625 MB/s
The max read write speeds are no where near those speeds. At most, using a USB C to USB Micro-B cable to the WD Easystore 5TB Drive, I’m only getting around 110 MBp/s - I’m plugging the cable from the WD Drive directly to a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro MAX.
This cable should be able to handle 10Gbp/s speeds so it’s not the cable.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012V56992/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
I formatted the drive using Disk Utility using a APFS Encrypted Format.
Why the slow transfer rates?
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Hi @webauthor ,
Title: Common Causes of Slow External and USB Flash Drive Performance and Data Transfer Rates
Link: Common Causes of Slow External and USB Flash Drive Performance and Data Transfer Rates
Please contact the WD Technical Support team for the best assistance and troubleshooting:
Thank you for the canned response but it seems you didn’t read my post. It’s a really simple question. Can someone expect to get 625MBs using a 5TB Easystore portable USB drive? Everywhere I’ve looked everyone is saying no - the max transfer rate is about 140MBs - Which is it? Please no more canned responses. Waiting a week for a canned response really ■■■■■.
Thanks,
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Run a HD Tune read benchmark against the drive. The resulting graph should show a monotonically decreasing curve.
140 MB/s sounds plausible.
I have the same question, tested out on windows, on Mac, docker. used the original usb cable, with and without usb-a to usb-c adapter. tested with black magic tool. And I got a firm 99-102 mb/s writing and 99-102 mb/s reading speed. Don’t even know how you can speed that up to 140mb/s.
Don’t’ Know what on the box said 5gbps max
