Windows 10: The copy speed is really slow in my laptop. Even copying two lines of text is taking...

Like if I'm renaming some files in file explorer to the copied text from somewhere else, its renaming the file to past clipboard copies as it's taking alot of time to copy text and i have to wait for a couple of seconds to be able to paste it. This is very annoying. This copy paste problem is present everywhere, on browsers, word, powerpoint , google eveywhere. This delay to copy and paste even some bytes of text is causing me problems.

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Slow speeds when copying on external drive

Hi all,

since I installed TeraCopy I started to monitor my copy speeds and they are un-usually slow. Here is a real example. Laptop specs are in my profile, I have 3 USB 3.0 ports + 1 Super charge (the yellow one). Regular 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive. It copies at exactly 6MB/s from my laptop. I put it on another weaker specs laptop- 16MB/s, (same flash drive, same file). I hoked to a 10 years old DELL laptop- same result- 16mb/s. Tried with external HDD, same slow copy speeds from my USB ports. Seriously?

One solution I saw was to go to Device manager->Drives->Policies and switch to "Better performance", but use the icon to unplug the drive. Haven't tested with my drive, but another showed no difference at all.

I have no un-recognized devices on the list:

 

Slow speeds when copying on external drive

Slow Speed

Hiii..... Since you are facing from slow speed problems.. You need to take care of your computer very well otherwise it may stuck some day later.. So, first perform disk cleanup so that all your cookies are clear, update your PC with some antivirus. You can follow the steps and I belive it will be helpful for you.

USB storage devices can be optimized for either quick removal or performance. If optimized for quick removal, data transfer can potentially be reduced to a crawl.

To optimize your USB drive for performance:
1.Right click on the USB drive and select properties
2.Select the Hardware tab
3.Under All Disk Drives, highlight your USB drive and select Properties
4.Select the Policies tab and select Optimize for performance.
5.Press OK twice, and your transfer speeds should increase dramatically
Note that when your drive is optimized for performance you'll need to use the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the taskbar to eject the drive - otherwise you'll risk corrupting your data by just removing the drive from the port.

 

Copying/moving speed slow

Hi,

Copying files from one partition to another is much slower than copying to a different drive...

Two different partitions still use the same read\write heads internally on the HDD...

They need to take turns reading and writing...

It is somewhat normal for there to be a fast burst when starting to copy that then slows down... This is due to the files being buffered in the Systems memory, which is considerably faster...

It eventually slows down to match the speed the drive being written to is able to handle...

In addition to all of this, I have noticed that the drivers provided by Microsoft for the "Intel Chipset" on my machine were not performing well... The HDD speeds were slower, and the USB 3.0 speeds were slower than USB 2.0 speeds...

In my case, I checked with the motherboard manufacturer and found a newer version of the Intel Chipset "INF" driver which updates all of the Intel Controllers...

I found an even newer one at Intel by checking Support\Drivers for my specific CPU... Both worked...