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SSD through USB 3.0 port totally drags my computer down
As soon as I connect my SSD to my computer through the 3.0 USB port everything turns to molasses. It takes like 10-15 seconds just to get my cursor where I want it, it skips and freezes all over the place. It’s like this for as long as the SSD is connected. If I connect through the USB 2.0 everything is fine, and the longer time it takes to transfer files isn’t really that huge of a difference.
Anybody got any clues? I googled and found nothing. Just to be clear, I’m not talking transfer speeds, I mean the whole computer runs like Windows 95. Also, I’m connecting the SSD with a USB 3.0 to SATA connector.
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Anything else sharing the USB buss? Disconnect, move to another port, etc. See if that makes a difference.
Do you have another drive to verify or rule out the port as the issue?
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I have 4 USB 3.0 ports, two in the back, and two on the top front of my PC. One of the ones on top has a USB which controls my wireless mouse. Could that be the problem? It works just fine in a USB 2.0 port. I’ll try moving it and see what happens. I’ll report back.
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Nope, same difference.
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Do you have some sort of system diagnostic that will show how often that disk is getting polled?
try it first with the usb 2 then compare to the usb 3?
seems like it’s being polled like constantly under the usb3.
not sure if that info is available with task mgr or not….
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sounds like you’re seriously missing a chipset driver…. either for the mobo or the adaptor.
and you really need an adaptor with UASP support or usb 3.0 won’t really do much. could be a bad adaptor as well that can’t handle throughput of 3.0. try it in another computer to see.
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