Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 18 hours agoIs there a program to speed up the process between my external harddrive and USB? If used to run super fast now it seems to slow down. Hopefully something I can use offline. Thxmessage-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down11
arrow-up18arrow-down1message-squareIs there a program to speed up the process between my external harddrive and USB? If used to run super fast now it seems to slow down. Hopefully something I can use offline. ThxDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 18 hours agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squarenomad@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up9·18 hours agoSounds 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.
minus-squarenomad@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours agoYou could in theory use a file system that uses compression. Increases CPU load but would reduce the effects of slow write times.
minus-squareNovis@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-217 hours agoIt could be this too! Don_Dickle @lemmy.world
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.
You could in theory use a file system that uses compression. Increases CPU load but would reduce the effects of slow write times.
It could be this too! Don_Dickle @lemmy.world