Setting Up Wd Passport For Mac

WD Passport USB 3.0 gets slow transfer rate, how to speed it up? 'I have a WS Passport USB 3.0 external hard drive with about 400GB of data saved in it. And recently, the WD external hard drive suddenly becomes extremely slow with a low transfer rate.

Connect the external drive to your Mac. Then go to Applications > Utilities folder and open Disk Utility (or search Disk Utility at top right magnifier and open it from there). In Disk Utility, select your WD external hard drive in the left column. Then click the Erase button and it will be formatted for Mac. Click Go > Applications > WD Security to display the WD Security screen, Set Security dialog. If you have more than one supported device connected to your computer, select the one that you want to create a password for.

For example, when I tried to copy a single Word document to the drive, it would take me about 5 minutes to complete. The WD drive has about 1TB storage space in total, which means that I still have more than 500GB free space left. But now, the drive becomes very slow for file transferring and saving. So I wonder if anyone of you knows how to fix the ‘WD external hard drive slow transfer rate’ issue, please let me know. Thank you very much.'

According to professional geek website and big storage device manufactures, the below-listed errors are top reasons that may cause your device with slow issue: 1. Low storage space: storage device runs out of free space.

Device gets occupied by useless files or large number of junk files. Corrupted system files/bad sectors on the storage device. Error system file on the storage device for saving data, etc. So how to fix and get rid of these problems? Continue reading and find solutions here now. Fix 'WD External Hard Drive Data Low Transfer Rate' and Speed Up the Transfer Speed Method 1. Compress and Backup Data in WD External Hard Drive with Low Free Space As for the first low storage space issue, we’d like to recommend you to compress files that you won’t use them frequently.

And you can even selectively compress and backup files on the WD external hard drive with the help of professional backup and recovery software. Here you can download for help. This tool allows you to selectively backup and compress files in WD external hard drive by taking small space.

Pubg mobile emulator mac download. You can even backup those files to your PC or Cloud storage such as Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive. Note: EaseUS Todo Backup is 100% FREE to backup files on your external hard drive, PC or other devices in 30 days.

Connect your WD external hard drive which as a low transfer rate to your PC. Launch EaseUS Todo Backup and then click File Backup.

Select the files that you want to backup and compress with a small size in the external hard drive. Select the location - WD external hard drive, your PC or even the Cloud storage to save the compressed file backup image. You can even click Backup option to set the compression level to Normal, Medium or High to minimize your files. Click on Proceed to backup and compress selected files to free up space on your WD external hard drive. If you choose to compress and backup those files to another device, you can even delete those files on your WD external hard drive so to gain more free space and improve the device transfer speed. Clear Useless Big Files and Junk Files on WD External Hard Drive To remove and clear useless junk files or big files, you can refer to professional file cleaner software for help.

If you need a simple guide, you can directly refer to for help. Run CMD to Repair Corrupted System Files/Bad Sectors on WD External Hard Drive • 1. Connect the WD external hard drive to your PC.

Right-click on Windows icon and select the Command Prompt (Admin) option. Click Yes when you are presented with a UAC window requesting permission to sign in with your account and password and launch the Command Prompt as Administrator. Type: chkdsk E: /f /r /x and hit Enter. (Here you should replace E with the drive letter of your WD external hard drive.) Method 4. Convert WD External Hard Drive to NTFS and Optimize Its Performance Comparing NTFS and other file systems like FAT or FAT32 etc., NTFS is more suitable for storage devices to apply and save data. Therefore, if your device is FAT32 or exFAT, just follow tips below to convert your WD external hard drive to NTFS: 1.

Connect the WD external hard drive to your PC. Right-click on Start and select Command Prompt (Admin). Sign in with your Administrator account if necessary. Type: convert E: /fs:ntfs and hit Enter. (Replace E: with the drive letter of your WD drive.) Then you can follow the next guidelines to optimize the WD external hard drive performance: 1. Connect the WD external hard drive which has slow transfer rate to your PC. Right-click on Windows icon and select Device Manager.