Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
Performance will be incredibly slow on a USB 1.1 port. Can you install a USB 2.0 PCI card? What HDD are you looking at? If it's a laptop you may want to look at replacing the internal HDD. Others here are more up to date on this area than I am, however.