Comment 19 for bug 1353050
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| Prophet6 (prophet6) wrote Re: External *Seagate* USB3 drive does not work in USB3 port | #19 |
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Things just got murkier: I borrowed a friend's WD 1TB USB3 passport and it works fine, although transfer speeds are only around 50MB/s (about half of what I would expect). There's no power adapter on this unit, and the drive is formatted NTFS, so that could account for the slow transfer speed, but it works.
For reference, the original drive in question (Seagate GoFlex) operates fine when plugged into the USB3 ports of another computer running a linux-based system (OpenElec). Not only does the drive function as expected in the latter case, but transfer speeds are a healthy 100MB/s. It's formatted as ext3.
Still, why would one drive work and not another on the same troubled USB3 port? Is it external drives fault? It doesn't seem to be since it runs on the other linux-based distro as expected. The plot thickens....