USB3

I bought a new laptop about 1 week ago - HP Pavilion dv6-6001sa 15.6" Laptop - White at cheap prices | PC World . For some reason the product info is completely messed up now, not sure what they've done.

I also bought a 1TB USB3 external hard drive - WD My Passport Essential SE 1 TB Black Portable Hard Drive (USB 3.0/2.0): Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

My question is. Is there a reason why i'm only getting around 26ish MB/s transfer speeds?


Thanks a lot in advance
swood

It's possibly the speed of the HDD in the enclosure. I get about the same with my external drive.

But it does say 3x faster in the description, so legally it should be faster than it actually is transferring. Hoping someone else has had this problem and resolved it,

The USB 3.0 interface is 3x faster but the HDD isn't. When they start putting ssd's in the caddys then you'll see an increase of speed.
At the moment unfortunately your held back by the hard disk.

Your laptop only supports USB 1.1 according to it's specifications. Not only does the external HDD have to be USB 3 but your motherboards USB ports would also have to be USB 3 specification to achieve the faster transfer speeds. Your device is a USB 3.0 external hard drive but running in backwards compatibility to work on the USB 1.1 bus speeds.

The 10" model only has usb 1.1, finding it difficult to find the specs of the 15.6" version.

For some reason the product info is completely messed up now, not sure what they've done.

That's not actually what the specs are. If you google that model you'll see what i have: Information on HP Pavilion dv6-6001sa (LK963EA) ? Product properties and detail - PriceRunner UK
My laptop has 2 USB2 and 2 USB3 ports

The sata hdd within the enclosure can't do the speed that usb 3.0 can. The interface itself could push and pull the 5Gbps but a HDD is never going to do 625MBps. The speed of the encloser is just limited by the write and read speed of the hdd.

Unfortunately you fell for the marketing on the box

So what's the point of having a USB3 compaitable HDD if you can't use it? I hate technololgy :P

Shouldn't hate tachnology, but the companies that label products in such a way as to mislead. Technically they're not lying though. As the USB 3.0 interface is theoretically 3x faster.