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10-26-2007
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| | Moving data to external usb HD 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 |
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10-26-2007
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| | Re: Moving data to external usb HD "Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eJxuxyBGIHA.4228@xxxxxx Quote: > 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? |
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10-26-2007
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| | Re: Moving data to external usb HD There are some issues with the accuracy depending on the system, but I have found it not to be dependable. On the opposite, a Backup of 43 GBs worth of data using Complete PC Back up in Vista x64 took 35 to 40 mins here. AMD Turion X2 2.0 2 GBs of RAM ATI 256 MB GPU -- Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry "Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:e4aR22BGIHA.2372@xxxxxx Quote: > > "Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:eJxuxyBGIHA.4228@xxxxxx Quote: >> 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? > |
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10-27-2007
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| | Re: Moving data to external usb HD "Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:e4aR22BGIHA.2372@xxxxxx Quote: > > "Jay" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:eJxuxyBGIHA.4228@xxxxxx Quote: >> 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 |
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10-27-2007
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| | Re: Moving data to external usb HD "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 Quote: >>> 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  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.. |
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12-03-2007
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| | Re: Moving data to external usb HD "Kevin Weaver" <kevinkeithweaver@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:jzzUi.12473$4V6.10940@xxxxxx Quote: > "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 |
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