I move that drive to the front so both are in USB 3 / blue USB ports. ![]() So, then I realized 1 drive was plugged into a USB 2. That's megabytes per second, right? Googling USB transfer rate, I find pages like this ![]() ![]() I have to transfer a 150GB file between 2 recently bought USB 3.0 external hard drives using a recently bought HP desktop and this is a good chance for me to clear up my ignorance of transfer speeds.Īt first, the source USB drive was plugged in the back of the desktop (the USB ports are black there) and the the target drive was plugged into a front blue USB port (and these say SS with the USB logo).ĭrag and dropping in file explorer (win 10 with 8 GB RAM), it showed a graph of the transfer and said the speed was around 40 MB/s.
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