GuroDragon Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 (edited) I recently copied my games library and launch box program from my 4TB Western Digital Red hard drive to a 8TB (WDBCKA0080HBK-NESN) USB 3.0 external hard drive. There is some slight lag on the internal drive but its really was not that bad but on the external drive it can barely cache the images and near crashes frequently. I have turned off legacy USB support in my computer bios but it did not speed things up much, any suggestions? Library 59,000+ i7-3770 16 GB Ram GTX1080 Edited August 6, 2017 by GuroDragon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 (edited) my LB runs just as well on usb 3.0 drive as an internal mechanical drive. maybe try this on your usb drive setting, i use it: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/optimize-data-transfer-speed-external-drives/ Edit: oh, i also use NTFS on my usb drive. Edited August 6, 2017 by ckp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 you may also want to run CrystalDiskMark on your usb 3 drive to see if it's getting the speed you want and expect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuroDragon Posted August 7, 2017 Author Share Posted August 7, 2017 23 hours ago, ckp said: you may also want to run CrystalDiskMark on your usb 3 drive to see if it's getting the speed you want and expect. I tested the drive it is actully 60% faster than my internal drive (which is a few years now), some how my USB drive was formatted to exFAT which is odd and I have no idea how that happened. I reformated to NTFS and I'm running better than ever......Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Glad it's working out for you. exFAT is good if you use the same drive across Windows, Mac, Linux, Pi. NTFS is best for pure windows stuff. This is good to know. I did not think exFAT would be so much slower though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek0642 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Hmmm, well I'm 75% done xfering to an exFAT formated usb stick... I guess we will see how slow it actually is for Launchbox and GOG. (using on a GPD Win2) . I guess based on above I may have to reformatted to NTFS (since it will pretty much only be used on Win2) if it seems slow... Good info above though, thx!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 i tried several usb 3.0 and 3.1 "sticks". they were all horrible due to abysmal write speeds. external usb hard drives work fine though. good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 yeah I definitely would have reformatted to ntfs 1st. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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