Monitor USB activity/Speed

denishh · 19. Jan 2012, 05:01 AM

I have a Welland 'Turbo Leopard' external USB3 drive with a 2T Hitachi 7200rpm drive in it.
This was purchased as USB3 while only having USB2 and USB1.1 drives on the laptop i was using.
I now have a 17" DELL, WITH 1Xusb2, 2xUSB3 and one combination USB2/eSATA ports.
Have had a lot of trouble getting the USB3 ports to see the drive.
Eventually reformatted, made active initialised, assigned a drive letter and made sacrifices to the big diode.
It is now seen by all four USB ports, but I'm not getting any large port speed differences.
USB2 appears to work properly on both ports, including the eSATA one. USB3 takes a long time to get startrd initially.

I get the feeling that XP's 'automatic stuff' either isn't there, is not enabled or the external drive isn't fully compatible. Possibly something has been damaged over the past year. External drives can get dropped.

Having spent many years installing/training with ERP systems, I understand the value of knowing what is actually happening before opening your mouth to ask a question.
So I tried to get some numbers before I talked to suppliers.

I'm surprised that there are no monitoring tools listed that can monitor USB behaviour.
Any ideas where I could look?

was advised to post here rather than against an old thread

since posting, have found a utility that dose some of what i want at
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_log_view.html
any other ideas?

MidnightCowboy · 19. Jan 2012, 05:28 AM

Thanks for posting this here from the main site comments.

Doing so will achieve a much wider viewing from amongst our own team and hopefully someone will come up with a solution. it also keeps the replies in chronological order making it easier to follow and useful for others who are maybe in the same situation.

frankey999 · 01. Feb 2012, 06:11 PM

Here's a few:

http://www.attotech.com/products/pro...Disk_Benchmark

v.laurie · 01. Feb 2012, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by denishh

I get the feeling that XP's 'automatic stuff' either isn't there, is not enabled or the external drive isn't fully compatible.

Windows XP doesn't support USB3 natively. Do you have the drivers that you need?

19. Jan 2012, 05:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
denishh Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1	Monitor USB activity/Speed I have a Welland 'Turbo Leopard' external USB3 drive with a 2T Hitachi 7200rpm drive in it. This was purchased as USB3 while only having USB2 and USB1.1 drives on the laptop i was using. I now have a 17" DELL, WITH 1Xusb2, 2xUSB3 and one combination USB2/eSATA ports. Have had a lot of trouble getting the USB3 ports to see the drive. Eventually reformatted, made active initialised, assigned a drive letter and made sacrifices to the big diode. It is now seen by all four USB ports, but I'm not getting any large port speed differences. USB2 appears to work properly on both ports, including the eSATA one. USB3 takes a long time to get startrd initially. I get the feeling that XP's 'automatic stuff' either isn't there, is not enabled or the external drive isn't fully compatible. Possibly something has been damaged over the past year. External drives can get dropped. Having spent many years installing/training with ERP systems, I understand the value of knowing what is actually happening before opening your mouth to ask a question. So I tried to get some numbers before I talked to suppliers. I'm surprised that there are no monitoring tools listed that can monitor USB behaviour. Any ideas where I could look? was advised to post here rather than against an old thread since posting, have found a utility that dose some of what i want at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_log_view.html any other ideas?

19. Jan 2012, 05:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
MidnightCowboy Site Manager Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: South American Banana Republic, third bunch from the left Posts: 9,250	Thanks for posting this here from the main site comments. Doing so will achieve a much wider viewing from amongst our own team and hopefully someone will come up with a solution. it also keeps the replies in chronological order making it easier to follow and useful for others who are maybe in the same situation. __________________ Knows nothing and cares even less

01. Feb 2012, 06:11 PM	#3 (permalink)
frankey999 Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 5	Here's a few: http://www.attotech.com/products/pro...Disk_Benchmark Last edited by MidnightCowboy; 01. Feb 2012 at 06:32 PM. Reason: Links containing commercial software removed

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