I’ve just bought myself an external USB 2.0 enclosure which holds my Samsung spinpoint 160GB 7200rpm drive.

Unfortuantely the read speeds seem to be very unimpressive (~12 MBytes/sec). Writing dosnt seems as bad at (<20 MBytes/sec) but I have seen reviews of this enclosure that report read speeds of 28 MBs which seems a reasonable figure.  review of my enclosure can be found here

I have the TR3A, but not sure I ever got the USB 2.0 configured properly. Its obviously using USB 2.0 as those speeds are unattainable with 1.1 but at the same time it feels like something is still wrong.

The drivers for USB in my device manager report dates of 1/02/2002 and 1/07/2001. There is 1x “usb 2.0 root hub”, and 3x “USB root hub”, various “8280 1DB/DBM USB Universal host controller” and one “8280 1DB/DBM USB 2.0 Enhanced Universal host controller

Any ideas?

Thats interesting….I have a external usb 2.0 and I tried to plug mine in the other day and it didn’t even register….

Nothing under my Computer….I thought in my head WTF…..Haven’t had time to figure out the problem…But, I thought it might be that my usb drivers are not the lastest.

Or maybe I need to update them since I have used recovery dvd….

It might be the TR’s hdd that is unable to supply data at that rate

I had considered that, but the fact that you can write to it from the TR HDD at ~20MBs dosnt add up.

Every review out there of these USB 2.0 HDDs seems to indicate speeds of around 25MBs, which I am only getting half that :(

if it helps, I get speeds of 12 MB/sec when writing (or may be reading as well) to my 80 gb firewire Sony gigavault drive and speeds of 7-8 MB/sec with my 1 gb PQI intelligent memory stick

7-8Mbs is about right unless you’ve got one of the newer faster sticks.

Pretty poor performance for firewire, however.

It is very new…if you remember the recent post by chris regarding the 1gb USB 2.0 drive for 84 bucks at newegg.

[quote author=“Rahul”]It is very new…if you remember the recent post by chris regarding the 1gb USB 2.0 drive for 84 bucks at newegg.

I think that’s why we’ve seen so many price drops. To make way for bigger/faster media.

Do you have to buy an adapter to connect firewire items to tr?
I have tr3..
And the cable I got with my firewire external hard drive doesn’t seem to have any ends that would fit..

The Firewire jack on the TR is a 4-pin jack. You will need to either buy a 4-pin to 6-pin adapter, or better yet just buy a cable with 4-pin on one end and 6-pin on the other. The 4-pin jacks are NOT powered, so the HD will need external power.

My gigavault drive came with both cables i.e. 6 pin to 6 pin and 6 pin to 4 pin. You can also buy a simple 6 pin to 4 pin interface instead of getting a new cable altogther.

could be

1) faulty cable

2) driver corruption

3) enclosure corruption

4) bootleg enclosure with generic chipset not the Oxford911

5) unstable power supply for the enclosure

6) hard drive failure

7) internal wiring problem

8) faulty laptop port ...

pretty much start one by one to eliminate the problem