WD10EAVS - Performance Issues (Mount Time, Transfer Rate)

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Hello,

I have a WD10EAVS packaged as a Fantom Green Drive.  Mounting volumes takes up to ten minutes.  Transfer rates to and from the drive are limited to ~700KB/s. 

Details below:

  • Host OS: Windows XP SP3

  • Partitions: 1

  • File system: NTFS

  • Allocation unit size: 4096 bytes

  • Connection: USB 2.0

  • Write caching: enabled

  • Compression: disabled

  • Indexing: disabled

  • Autoplay: disabled

  • WD Diagnostics: pass

  • chkdsk: pass

An empty volume takes three minutes to mount.  A 300GB volume takes ten minutes to mount.  I have reproduced this and the ~700KB/s transfer rate with a second WD10EAVS and alternative enclosure.  However, with Windows Vista and Windows 7, mounts are quick and trasfer rates are optimum.

What could be wrong with this Windows XP system?

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My chipset supports only USB 1.1.  I overlooked this because USB 1.1 is rated at 12Mb/s, twice the transfer rate in this situation.

Source: http://www.intel.com/assets/pdf/datasheet/290687.pdf