My Passport for Mac portable storage is ready to use out of the box so you can start transferring files, saving your memories and backing up right away. It comes with WD Discovery software for WD Security to help protect your data and is compatible with Apple Time Machine.
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1) Here is one problem:
Time since boot: About 24 days
With only 8GB RAM that you cannot upgrade, restarting every 3-5 days will help performance by cleaning out old temp files and logs and freeing up virtual RAM.
2) Completely uninstall Dr Cleaner. Almost every so-called 'cleaning/tune-up' app foist upon Mac users WILL slow the computer. If you installed anything else that claims to protect, clean, optimize, or give your Mac whiter teeth, please remove them. None other that Dr Cleaner show up, but remember that Macs never need steaming piles of third-party utilties to work as designed. They only slow us down.
3) Sometimes WD external drive enclosures can cause slowdowns. Try disconnecting the WD drive and restarting, then test. You may need a more robust and reliable external drive than a WD Passport. They are very 'entry-level.'
4) One thing I just ran into yesterday on my iMac: it started acting slow evidenced by cursor movement getting jerky. Restarting did not help. Activity Monitor showed three processes--printuitool, icdd, and hidd--using too many resources. I found a reference that said they could appear when updates from the Mac App Store lingered a long time in your update list. I had one I'd ignored for months as it was not critical to my computer usage. However, I installed the update (was for my printer) and restarted. The computer now runs normally again.
Mar 18, 2018 9:54 AM
Summary
Are you facing a hopeless situation that your WD external hard drive becomes very slow to open files or boot the operating system? Find solutions to fix the slow WD external hard drive in this post, and let EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard help with file recovery if the slow drive threatens your important data.
WD My Passport 1TB external hard drive is suddenly very slow
'I have a three years old WD My Passport 1TB external hard drive which has been used as a backup drive. About a week ago, something unusual happened. The drive became extremely slow, especially when I was trying to transfer data from my computer or open files on the drive. Is this problem serious? Perhaps is there any way to fix the slow WD external hard drive? Please help me.'
If you are one of the WD Elements and WD My Passport (Ultra) external hard drive consumers who are currently experiencing a slow transfer speed, slow response or slow boot problem, please read this post carefully. It offers information on how to fix a slow WD external hard drive, additionally introduces EaseUS data recovery solution to protect important data from corrupted or inaccessible slow WD external drive.
What's the risk of having a slow external hard drive?
Once your hard drive is very slow suddenly without warning or reporting errors, be alert! There are some potential risks that might cause an even severe damage to your hard drive and the data as well.
A list of risks that might be developed from a slow WD external hard drive:
1. Hard drive starts making clicking sound or noise. 2. Files cannot open anymore, being corrupted. 3. Windows can no longer detect the hard drive or display the data. 4. Hard drive keeps crashing, hanging or freezing when double-clicking on it or trying to open files.
How to prevent data from corrupting or becoming inaccessible on a slow hard drive?
When you're faced with a slow hard drive, such as a hard drive of Western Digital or other brands like SanDisk, Toshiba, Kingston or Samsung, try to protect your data from being damaged as soon as possible.
And the best way to access data in a WD external hard drive which can hardly open is to let EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard help. It's the most proficient hard drive recovery software that takes three steps to help WD users find all data they want.
Step 1. Choose the external hard drive
Since you're going to recover data from the external hard drive, run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and under the External Devices tab, choose the exact drive where you lost data. Click Scan.
Step 2. Scan for lost data
The software will start immediately to scan all over the selected drive for all lost data. During the scan, you could see more and more data showing up in the results.
Step 3. Preview and recover data
After the scan is over, check the scan results for the desired data. You can preview the file by double-clicking on it. Click Recover and choose another location to save the recovered data.
How to fix a slow WD external hard drive?
With data fully protected, now you can start to apply every possible workaround to resolve the slow issue on a WD external drive. Altogether, we've picked up five viable solutions for you.
1. Change the SATA data cable. 2. Change the USB 2.0 port to USB 3.0 port. 3. Perform disk fragmentation to optimize the disk. 4. Check and repair hard drive logic errors and bad sectors. 5. Send the drive to hard drive repair center or simply replace the slow hard drive with a new one.
Next, we're going to give a detailed instruction of the sixth and seventh solutions, which people can easily test all by themselves on their PCs.
6. To optimize a slow WD external hard drive
Step 1. Go to Computer (Windows 7) or This PC (Windows 10). Step 2. Right-click on the slow WD external hard drive and choose Properties. Step 3. In the tab, click Tools, under the Tools click Optimize. Step 4. Follow the onscreen wizard to complete the process.
By doing like we taught, you can optimize your drives to help it run more efficiently. It's one of the most applied ways to speed up a hard drive that is suddenly slow, overloaded or sluggish.
7. To check and repair hard disk bad sectors
Step 1. Open the WD external hard drive Properties window likewise. Step 2. In the tab, click Tools, click Check this time. (This option will check the drive for file system errors that may slow down a hard drive's performance ) Step 3. Follow the onscreen wizard to complete the process or file system checking and repairing.
Tip
If the hard drive crashes while you trying to open it by right-clicking, go to check hard drive partition errors and remove bad sectors in the other way.
Download EaseUS free partition manager software to check and repair bad sectors on the WD external hard drive.
If the slow drive disables you from doing both of the troubleshooting steps, please do a further examination: is its LED light flashing appropriately, or does Windows recognize the disk? If not, it's time to send the drive to a professional repair center or contact the WD support to seek help. Your drive seems to be damaged heavily and it's losing its capability.