Here are a few answers I found....
USB 3 is supposed to have a maximum throughput of 5Gbps. That should allow for around 500MB/s transfer at best. However, there are no HDDs which can handle that speed. Definitely not as a constant transfer where it’s larger than the cache on the drive / in...
Do you have multi monitor setup? if so you have to close it from the screens taskbar that it is open in. That setting can be changed in taskbar settings
Do you have multi monitor setup? if so you have to close it from the screens taskbar that it is open in. That setting can be changed in taskbar settings