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How to increase the speed between two external hard drives on my laptop?

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I own Sony Vaio Z laptop with two external USB ports. It's quite new and has USB 2.0 support. I'm using Vista x64 on it. I also have two external usb hard drives, Iomega 500GB and WD for 1TB. Every hard drive has USB 2.0 support. I connect two devices to my laptop and trying to copy date from one h…

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Fix for: How to increase the speed between two external hard drives on my laptop?

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USB2 running in "hi-speed" can theoretically do about 60MBps (MegaBYTES) maximum (AKA 480Mbps), but you'll never get that. If you are using both drives on the same USB hub (as it appears in the picture), then you are sharing that available bandwidth…

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