How to Fix Slow Write Speeds on External SSD in Windows 10

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In this video I demonstrate how to fix slow write speeds on an external SSD by enabling write cache.

[ajtheallmighty]

1:49 im on windows 11 and im not getting the option for "Better Performance" option - we need a more updated video

[EdindroWhitehall]

This increases performance for me for like a minute then drops the speed down to like 300kb, I can't figure this out

[sonario]

I do get a very fast transfer speed at the start but then it just goes down to between 1mb and 355kb.

[DanDill]

This did the trick. Thank you very much.

[wrinkmd]

I followed your steps. It is somewhat better but writing games to steam is still very slow.. Any suggestions? I have the GFORCE 3 Pro External HDD

[onurnidayi]

Works for me, thanks for this video, speed was driving me mad !!

[kexxik]

Unfortunately you are NOT right! The caching here means memory caching on your laptop, not in the drive. When you enable it, it means the data will first go into your computer RAM and then slowly from the RAM into the disk. It will appear it completed the transfer but it will continue in the background. That's why it is "less safe" and you should not disconnect it from PC because if you disconnect it, the data won't be copied on the drive completely and you could end up with the damaged filesystem. Same if your system crashes. Sadly, this doesn't fix Orico slowness AT ALL, it will still copy from the cache to it slowly. I have no idea why it is so slow but there must be something to it. Orico recommends specific SSD models. It must be doing something inefficiently for other models or other models are turning off parallel writes to NANDs by itself for some reason. EDIT: I improved write speed of my Adata SSD three times by upgrading its firmware. Worth a try in your case too.

[jabeerasghar]

Very was annoyed because my new Samsung T7 was not giving the claimed write speeds

[Cool_as_the_Northern_Wind]

Dude, I don't have the policies options. even the interface window is very different.
Pease Help I have an urgent need of a backup, but my new drive is too slow

[patrickbhardwaj]

doesnt work on Crucial X8 1TB SSD (1050MB/s), instead it slow down more.

[KnowledgeCravings]

That was quick fix! It worked! Thanks!

[bflikzzz]

Im getting 23 mb/s read and 5.24 write

[ImaginaryAsh]

Cannot enable "write caching". My Samsung QVO 870 doesn't have this feature.

[better]

Didnt work for me
I have a sandisk extreme portable ssd
And the speeds are 40mb/s both in write and read
When it should be close to 1000mb

[themadears]

my sandisk external ssd still transfers at 40mb/s

[davidsiwale]

Mine is 10mbps. Do I'd kill to even have 500 mbps. So how can you help?

[strawhatsam]

I have a Samsung 970 Evo in a small ORICO enclosure and I am only getting 35-40MB/s offload speeds. I used the drive to record Cinema DNG footage on my camera and it takes hours to copy to my editing computer with just a few minutes of footage. I tried this trick and it did not affect the offload speeds.

[GhOsT-stch]

Cool mine is 7mb read and max 50mb write 😢

[kcjgs]

Thanks! it helped me a lot with my external SSD while downloading/writing on steam!

[gerdj.]

I´ve also activated the Cache, but my Samsung T9 Shield have only the half Speed
that it should bring.Connected on an Asus Z690 Mainboard on the USB 3.2 Gen 2x2
Port.With the Crystal Disk Speed Test she brings the full Performance, and that´s
the Reason why I never trust this synthetic Speed Tests.Create a Folder with
30-40 GB and start a Copy Process to another SSD Drive and you see the Reality!!