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Have you solved the problems with your USB cable and software? I've just found at Prolific website a simple tutorial for running WET utility on Windows 8.1 and 10. You may browse it here. Maybe it will be of any help for you.
Btw I ordered the same cable as yours by Goobay. So, when I get it I'll test it out and write the results here.
Have you solved the problems with your USB cable and software? I've just found at Prolific website a simple tutorial for running WET utility on Windows 8.1 and 10. You may browse it here. Maybe it will be of any help for you.
Btw I ordered the same cable as yours by Goobay. So, when I get it I'll test it out and write the results here.
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Personally I own the "Belkin Easy Transfer Cable for Windows 8". Recently I have tried that cable with a freshly installed Windows 10: Although Windows 10 no longer supports the Microsoft Easy Transfer software, it recognized the cable immediately when I plugged it in. I was able to use it with Total Commander to connect to a Windows 7 system without installing any other software.
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Today I have received Active USB 3.0 Data Link Cable by Goobay and tested it immediately. It's perfectly working in both winusbtest.exe and TC. My tests was made on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8.1 64-bit. Currently I don't have Windows 10 but I'm going to check it out on that OS too.
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I just have one notice about USB 3.0 transfer speed. This list Supported cables for USB cable connection states that this cable should work at 80 megabytes per sec. But I couldn't reach such speed. It's working at approx. 55k - 60k kilobytes per sec., that corresponds to 53,71 MB - 58,59 MB per sec. It's less than the stated speed of that cable.
It's curiously enough that the cable's package contains a booklet w/ techical data, where I have read:
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I just have one notice about USB 3.0 transfer speed. This list Supported cables for USB cable connection states that this cable should work at 80 megabytes per sec. But I couldn't reach such speed. It's working at approx. 55k - 60k kilobytes per sec., that corresponds to 53,71 MB - 58,59 MB per sec. It's less than the stated speed of that cable.
It's curiously enough that the cable's package contains a booklet w/ techical data, where I have read:
This value corresponds to 625 MB/s! Some kind of marketing move, I think.Data transfer rate: 5 Gbps
Hacker
Now I run a built-in Windows tool winsat to check read/write speed of my HDD. Here are the results:
Now I run a built-in Windows tool winsat to check read/write speed of my HDD. Here are the results:
I think it's more related to USB peripherals than to the disk drive. Well, I'll run the same test on new SSD when I install it on my system.C:\Users\user>winsat disk -drive c
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ”
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment ‘-drive c -seq -read’
> Run Time 00:00:08.38
> Running: Storage Assessment ‘-drive c -ran -read’
> Run Time 00:00:10.52
> Running: Storage Assessment ‘-drive c -scen 2009′
> Run Time 00:01:06.35
> Running: Storage Assessment ‘-drive c -seq -write’
> Run Time 00:00:06.91
> Running: Storage Assessment ‘-drive c -flush -seq’
> Run Time 00:00:07.01
> Running: Storage Assessment ‘-drive c -flush -ran’
> Run Time 00:00:11.58
> Running: Storage Assessment ‘-drive c -hybrid -ran -read -ransize 4096′
NV Cache not present.
> Run Time 00:00:00.16
> Running: Storage Assessment ‘-drive c -hybrid -ran -read -ransize 16384′
NV Cache not present.
> Run Time 00:00:00.03
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 113.48 MB/s 6.8
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 1.56 MB/s 4.0
> Responsiveness: Average IO Rate 2.98 ms/IO 6.4
> Responsiveness: Grouped IOs 11.21 units 6.9
> Responsiveness: Long IOs 11.14 units 7.3
> Responsiveness: Overall 124.84 units 6.7
> Responsiveness: PenaltyFactor 0.0
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 124.40 MB/s 6.9
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 7.680 ms 5.1
> Latency: 95th Percentile 26.466 ms 4.0
> Latency: Maximum 58.339 ms 7.8
> Average Read Time with Random Writes 11.271 ms 4.2
> Total Run Time 00:01:54.22
So today I did the test on W10 and my new SSD with the same cable. Sadly the transfer speed has not changed too much. It's still near 54k kilobytes/sec on SSD->HDD copying and 60k kilobytes/sec on HDD->SSD copying.dadreamer wrote:Well, I'll run the same test on new SSD when I install it on my system.
According to winsat the SSD is capable of these fantastic speeds:
Currently I don't have another one SSD to do SSD->SSD test. But it seems to me that the drive read/write speed is not the reason here. USB 3.0 host controller might be responsible for these limits.> Disk Random 16.0 Read 287.63 MB/s 8.1
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 361.46 MB/s 7.9
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 242.97 MB/s 7.5
I can confirm that both USB 2.0 and 3.0 Windows Easy Transfer cables work perfectly on Windows 10 without installing any additional drivers by Prolific. Although the user has a choice of installing additional Prolific software PCLinq5 which also installs Prolific drivers. These drivers change almost nothing in the system if standard winusb.sys has already been used.ghisler(Author) wrote:Recently I have tried that cable with a freshly installed Windows 10: Although Windows 10 no longer supports the Microsoft Easy Transfer software, it recognized the cable immediately when I plugged it in. I was able to use it with Total Commander to connect to a Windows 7 system without installing any other software.