"Kevin Weaver" <kevinkeithweaver@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:A6033E9F-A96D-4BDA-97BF-ED4A20ECA904@xxxxxx Quote:
>> "Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:e4aR22BGIHA.2372@xxxxxx Quote:
>>>
>>> "Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:eJxuxyBGIHA.4228@xxxxxx
>>>> HP laptop with 2GB RAM and 2.2Ghz Centrino Duo.
>>>> Windows Vista Business 32 bit.
>>>> I have just plugged in my new LaCie 500GB USB 2.0 external hard drive.
>>>> Windows did it's installing drivers thing and all is good.
>>>>
>>>> I selected some folders containing approx 350 files and totaling 34GB
>>>> and am moving them to this new volume.
>>>>
>>>> The dialogue is currently saying 3 hours remaining (it was 5 hours
>>>> about 10 minutes ago).
>>>> Is this slow speed expected?
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea what the benchmark for this sort of transfer would be,
>>>> nor do I understand the finer points of read/write transfer rates.
>>>>
>>>> Anything I can do to speed things up?
>>>>
>>>> Jay
>>>
>>>
>>> 10 minutes later and we are on 47 minutes remaining.
>>> I suppose a better way to ask my question (giving the massive
>>> fluctuations in minutes remaining) is how long would you expect 1 GB to
>>> transfer across on the above set-up?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Took 1:47 to copy a 1GB file from my Dell laptop to an external USB
>> drive. Xcopying 178 files that were approx. 1GB took 1:38.
>>
>> Lang >
> I've got that beat. 
>
> Two Sata drives. With NCQ 7200 RPM With 16mb cache. Sata 300 And it took
> 2+hours to copy 40gigs. The transfer rate is a joke. Yeah vista is better
> then XP heheheh..
>
Sorry... that was a minute and 47 seconds, not an hour and 47 minutes. It
was just a gig of data. Just trying to baseline it. 40x1:47 is... uh...
lemme fire up the calculator... is approximately 71 minutes.
But, yeah, the file copy fubar performance it my biggest complaint with
Vista.
Lang