Ended up following the advice in this thread and plugging my drive in to a windows laptop I had - luckily it was formatted ex-fat.
Switched off quick removal and drive speed immediately increased. That thread suggests then flipping back to “Quick Removal” but I found that that reintroduced the problem so I have left it set to “Better Performance”.
Then moving the drive back to the Macbook Pro and the drive is performing faster again, according to the speed tests I ran - see attached screenshots
The first two are the PC in “Better Performance” mode and the Macbook after “Better Performance” was enabled on the PC. The last one is with “Quick Removal” turned on on the PC. As you can see, a massive difference and obviously an issue that should be addressed by the company.
My question to WD and G-Tech is how do you affect this change if you don’t have a PC to test with? What is the equivalent setting/operation on a Mac??
