Slow data transfer/external hard drive

RE,

I find the performance not that bad?

Capacity
320 GB of storage

Interface
USB 2.0 High Speed

Bus transfer rate: up to 480 Mbit/s (Max)

Cache memory
8 MB

Power supply
220 Volts mains supply

Dimensions and weight
110 x 195 x 29 mm

830 grams

Included accessories
USB cable, power adapter, user and warranty guide, installation CD and manual

Compatibility
PC:

USB 2.0 High Speed port

Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 and XP

MAC:

USB 2.0 high speed port

MAC OS 9.0 and above

Warranty
1 year

Plug it into a port on your PC!

Hello, I was also in your situation. After multiple searches on the forums, I found nothing to solve my problem.
I just solved it and I'm sharing it with you:
Under XP, everything went well, but since I installed Vista, my 500 GB Philips external hard drive has become extremely slow, taking an entire night to move a DIVX from the external hard drive to the main disk, and it was impossible to view a DIVX directly on the external hard drive.
I had a USB hub connected to a USB port on my PC; I unplugged it and plugged my external hard drive in its place, and since then, I've regained phenomenal speed, and everything has returned to normal.
Apparently, the drivers for the hub were not good for Vista or there was a conflict; I didn't have time to check. For now, I'm not reconnecting the hub because everything works well like this.
Thank you and keep it up.

Hello,
hello I also have a problem like yours with my external hard drive; the transfer rate is also very slow and I can't seem to resolve it.....

Good evening,

What do you mean by slow, the time for what weight of files?

dph

I advise you to unplug all your USB devices and reconnect them one by one until you find the one that's causing the external hard drive to malfunction.
Thank you and keep going.

I tried a lot of free software to recover my lost files... those that seem to work pose the same problem, I can't open the recovered files....
I work on Photoshop, and during a folder transfer, many .psd and .jpg files disappeared, I never managed to recover them.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then, I bought an external WD hard drive to lighten my computer and to avoid losing my work. But!!!!!!!! I dropped my hard drive, the read head, etc. is broken, I've lost all my work again, and no software can recover anything! Or I have to pay €2000 for a repair in a clean room....?

Hello, you can't solve it; you had to check with buying the transfer speed, there's nothing more you can do.

I'm responding to this comment because I find it TOTALLY ridiculous and it annoys me!!!!

A 7200 RPM hard drive is a fast drive!
And that is still true today... So, if your hard drive is slow, there is a real problem somewhere between your drive and your PC (the cable or the USB port?)
If your problem is still not resolved,

Good luck :)

Alexattitude

Yes, it's true it's a lot, but you should have looked beforehand.

yeah totally