Despite your belief, it really sounds like the drive is connected to a USB1
rather than USB2 port. Perhaps the external enclosure contains a USB1 chip.
I'd be chasing hardware rather than software reasons. Good luck.
Poppy.
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then
> right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click
> on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to
> "Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on
> the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK.
>
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
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>
> "Ray" <Ray@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:EAB05448-17EA-44B2-86D8-C0E67921B0F3@xxxxxx
> I get 2.3Mb/S data transfer rate from an internal Seagate 750GB SATA II
> drive
> to an external eSATA Seagate 750GB SATA II drive! When I use the USB 2.0
> capabaility of the external drive I get 10Mb/S.
>
> Drive speed has always been an issue for me under Windows Vista. I am not
> using any RAID or anything weird. And this is now the same on two
> different
> mother boards.
>
> Any suggestions?