Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC loT 24H2 10mb/s over usb 3.0 hard drive

[HeyItsChris]

When I first installed the os I copied a game over from my Seagate 5TB 2.5" HDD to my Samsung 970 EVO 500GB drive and it got 140MB/s.

 

Now I'm trying to transfer macOS Big Sur iso over, it's a single 16GB iso & it's going like below 10MB/s for some reason.

 

I checked AIDA64 devices usb devices & it's working at USB 3.0 speeds & I updated my USB driver & disabled USB Legacy support in the BIOS, but still less than 10MB/s.

 

I swapped the USB 3.0 enclosure to a new Yottamaster USB 3.0 Type C to Type A USB 3.0 & I even directly connected it to the back USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports on my ASUS X570i Gaming Motherboard, still slow.

 

Why?

Thanks

 

Edited August 18 by HeyItsChris

[ENTERPRISE]

You state when you first installed the OS you were getting transfer speeds of 140mb/s. Is this still the case with other file transfers ? It is important to discover if all file transfers are affected first as it could indicate a change has happened to the OS since fresh installation such as drivers or a Windows Update.

[HeyItsChris]

LOL ran a 8 hour long defragment on the drive & its fixed.  Thanks for the help.

[ENTERPRISE]

57 minutes ago, HeyItsChris said:

LOL ran a 8 hour long defragment on the drive & its fixed.  Thanks for the help.

 

Which drive did you defrag? If mechanical fine, if SSD you should avoid doing that as data management is different on an SSD and defraging an SSD causes additional writes to the drive, leading to a shorter lifespan. It is however possible that initiating the defrag on the SSD ran a TRIM operation. TRIM is what you want to run on an SSD and TRIM by default should be carried out by the OS. However there are ways to force it manually. 

[HeyItsChris]

Thanks, yeah I trimmed the nvme ssd & defragged the 5tb hdd.