I recently purchased a LaCie 1TB USB external Hard Drive. It came with FNet TurboHDD USB software, tailored to run with LaCie only, that did really boost transfer rates by up to 30% on my set-up.
Unfortunately the LaCie HDD had to be returned because it did not spin down when the PC was turned off, and if left spinning, caused a blue screen on the PC at start up.
I replaced the LaCie with a Western Digital 1TB Elements USB HDD which behaves very well in addition to being cheaper!

Does anyone know how to obtain the FNet TurboHDD USB software which, as far as I can see from a Japanese web site, is capable of being used with any external HDD?
An English web site would be helpful

Alternatively, is there something similar from another software house?
Terry