New My Passport for Mac - Slow

[4464Dave]

Hi WD Community,

I have just installed My Passport for Mac and it seems to be working fine. However it is very slow! I have it backing-up everything I have on my laptop to Time Machine. It is doing this at 234 bytes of 122.91 GB, and is yet to calculate time remaining. Have I done something wrong? In settings or installation? Or should I use alternative program to Time Machine?

Thanks for any feedback, Dave.

[Hamlet]

Hello and welcome to the community,

Try installing the Turbo drivers to see if the speed improves. also if possible just for troubleshooting purposes try another USB cable.

• WD Macintosh +TURBO Drivers

[HDDRS]

here is a solution to a very slow WD drive

[LSharkey]

Followed the link for the turbo drivers, but there’s no drivers listed on the mac software page. Is this a discontinued driver, or is it available somewhere else?
thx.