
It doesn’t matter if everything else is blazing fast: If you’ve got a bottleneck, your download will be slow.

An external drive-induced performance drop-off can occur at several stops along the data transfer pathway, including: We get it.īut here’s the thing: external drives and their connections are one of the most common causes of download speed bottlenecks and slowdowns. You don’t have much space on your local disk. Here’s some advice that’s sure to save significant time the next time you download large files: don’t download to an external hard drive. Like a video editor who needs to download a batch of footage for a last-minute project.

No one likes slowdowns and delays when downloading large files-especially on a deadline.
