Toshiba 320GB external HDD make my computer extremely slow

Hi.
I bought this product a few weeks ago now and whenever I use it, it makes my omputer go so slow tp the point where I can't actually do anything on it, due to the fact that everything becomes non-responsive. Also, the rate at which I transfer files onto it is also very slow. Any ideas why and what I can do to speed things up a bit?
Thanks.

Hi
You have suggested the notebook becomes slowly during the usage of the external HDD.
I assume you transfer a data from the internal HDD to the external USB HDD.
I think its not very unusual the notebook runs slowly during the data transmission.
It depands also on the programs which runs in the background of the OS.
I dont know which interface you use USB2 or only a USB but the data transfer depends on the interface.

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