Toshiba STOR.E Basics 1TB - extremely slow

Hi,
I've recently bought this Toshiba STOR.E Basics 1TB USB 3.0 HDTB110EK3BA and it's extremely slow, taking already around 48h for copying less than 100Gb.
I'm formating it Mac Os Plus and using a Mac Book Pro with USB3
Why is that happening?
Thanks
BR/ Javi

Why the data transfer is slow?
Who knows there are many reasons for that you will need to check some few things to get an answer for that
Fact is that this HDD support the USB 3.0 standard.
This means that this HDD operates with USB 3.0 performance (~ 130MB/s)
Fact is that the USB 3.0 HDD needs more power than the common USB 2.0 HDDs.
The USB 3.0 needs 900mA, the USB 2.0 HDD needs 500mA
Therefore its recommended to connect such HDD to two USB 2.0 ports using Y USB cable.
At the other hand the data transmission speed might be limited to the notebook (chipset).
Maybe your internal HDD does not provide more performance to transmit the data to the external HDD.
I read some test about this HDD and many users got the great performance.
Using USB 2.0 ports: 31,8 MB/s write ; 31,5 MB/s read
using USB 3.0 ports : 105,45 MB/s write ; 108,89 MB/s read
I recommend you to install some Disk Benchmark tools like ATTO to check the performance using other computer.

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