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Along with the other advice, it’s worth noting that “USB” ports can have different specs; make sure you’re plugged into one that supports USB 3.1 or higher.
Also, USB is CPU-bound; if the CPU is busy doing other things, peripheral communication slows down.
My own external 1TB HDD is old enough that it only has USB2 connectivity. It transfers at around 40MB/s. Maybe you're in the same situation?
I only transfer files of a few gigabytes to it every month or so, which I find bearable, but I'd be less happy if I was trying to move hundreds of gigabytes or the full drive contents on a regular basis. That would literally take hours.
Sounds alot like a dying drive. If you love your data, you better have a copy somewhere. Better already have but if it's not too late, now is the time.
It could be this too! Don_Dickle @lemmy.world
Not enough info here. Is it a SATA drive connected to your mobo? What type of USB are you using? Are you transferring files?
If you are transferring files from a SATA drive, you're going to be limited by the sata interface. If you are using an older USB standard, you are going to be limited by the speeds of that USB interface. Also depends on what specs your system is using.
If everything is "fast enough" (using an m.2 ssd and fast enough USB connector), it could be that your USB cable isn't able to do 3.0 type speeds and is only meant for power or older devices.
Basically, without more info, there could be a lot of things at play here that's not going to be resolved with a software solution. ALSO, you can't really solve hardware problems with software anyways.
Its a Samsung External 1tb to a Sandisk Usb 250gb
Flash is slow to write to. Even 'USB3' ones can get bogged down on long writes or copying lots of little files.
What about the device you're connecting these two to? What are the interfaces on that device?