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    I have 03 HDDS 1 TB each. Two from WD and 01 from Transcend. All are NTFS. Data transfers to/from the WD drives is much faster than the Transcend. I dont have the rpm of ech drive but they will not be very different. I have a core i5 Dell Latitude with Win 7. All my drives are USB 2.0.

    Any clues to why the Transcend one is slow? It is even more slower for unzipping content. Unzipping a 4GB zipped video took TWENTY MINUTES to unzip. Normally, a 1 GB zipped video takes about 30 seconds to unzip on my WD drives.

    Thanks for any clues / advice.
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    I would first try swapping the usb port on one of your WD drives with the transcend and see if it improves performance.
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    I used the other usb port. Didint note any improvement.

    Meanwhile, I have deleted a lot of data (4 GB from it) but it still shows no space created. (only 20 mb). Can you help me solve this problem?

    Thanks.
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    The problem was solved by the Disk clean utility in Windows. In fact there was somehow a Recycle Bin created on this drive itself and whatever I deleted actually only went to the bin. The cleanup utility allowed me to empty the Bin and free the space.

    Didnt know that recycle bins also resided on external drives. I would like to opt out of this option if there is some setting for that on my PC.

    Let me know if you know of any such option.
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    I'm sorry, I don't know of any way to use an external drive without a recycle bin.
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    To delete files without sending them first to Recycle Bin:

    On desktop right-click Recycle Bin and choose propereties. The choose your external drive and click "Don't move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted." Click OK.

    That's it!
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    Yes. That did the trick.
    Thanks very much to all.
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  8. Or for ones you don't want to send to recycle bin, hold down the shift key, after right clicking on file.
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    [QUOTE=seymoria;2299050... Didnt know that recycle bins also resided on external drives. I would like to opt out of this option if there is some setting for that on my PC.

    Let me know if you know of any such option.
    Thank you.[/QUOTE]

    All drives have recycle bins. Why the frak would you want to disable it? You'd really be whining when you accidentally deleted the wrong file and couldn't get it back.

    It'd be a lot easier in the future to just remember to check the recycle bin occasionally. I'm amazed how many noobs don't remember this and end up backing up their deleted files too.
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    I also fail to see that the existence of the recycle bin, or files within it, cause your problems.

    So what does that utility actually do ? Defrag the drive etc. That is what causes drives to slow down.
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