External hard drive is very slow!

I bought an Elements 500 GB external Hard drive and noticed that it is very slow when installing software on it or moving files on it. Is this normal? I connected it with a USB 2.0 cable on my keyboard.

Hi AndreasvanHaren-
Slow is normal. Depending on what keyboard you have the port may actually be running at USB 1.X speed.
At minimum you may want to give the drive it's own port on the Mac itself and see how that helps with speed.
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

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