how can be written to USB2 hard drive

[Lynn McGuire]

I am using several USB2 external hard drives (200 GB to 200 GB)
for backing up my network to. The full backup is about 150 GB. I
use robocopy to copy all of the drives to my external drives.

I have reformatted all of the external hard drives to NTFS. I am
running Windows XP SP2. I am using an ASUS A8N Premium
motherboard with an AMD 4800+ dual core cpu and 2 GB of ram.

Usually after about 30 to 50 GB is copied to the external hard drive,
my computer starts getting this error message when robocopy
tries to copy, "insignificant system resources ...".

Does anyone know why I am getting this error message ? Is USB2
robust enough to have 150 GB written over it during a 24 hour period ?

Thanks,
Lynn

 

[Rod Speed]

I am using several USB2 external hard drives (200 GB to 200 GB)
for backing up my network to. The full backup is about 150 GB. I use
robocopy to copy all of the drives to my external drives.

I have reformatted all of the external hard drives to NTFS. I am
running Windows XP SP2. I am using an ASUS A8N Premium
motherboard with an AMD 4800+ dual core cpu and 2 GB of ram.

Usually after about 30 to 50 GB is copied to the external hard drive,
my computer starts getting this error message when robocopy
tries to copy, "insignificant system resources ...".

Does anyone know why I am getting this error message ?

Likely robocopy is very badly designed.

Is USB2 robust enough to have 150 GB written over it during a 24 hour period ?

Yep.

 

[Lynn]

Usually after about 30 to 50 GB is copied to the external hard drive,

Likely robocopy is very badly designed.


Yep.

I forgot to mention that the networking on the PC locks up also. And I
tried this on my file server (a dual opteron pc), locks it up also.

I did not used to have this problem when I was running Intel motherboards
and Intel cpus. Makes me think that I may get another Intel motherboard
and dual core cpu next.

Thanks,
Lynn

 

[John .]

I am using several USB2 external hard drives (200 GB to 200 GB)
for backing up my network to. The full backup is about 150 GB. I
use robocopy to copy all of the drives to my external drives.

I have reformatted all of the external hard drives to NTFS. I am
running Windows XP SP2. I am using an ASUS A8N Premium
motherboard with an AMD 4800+ dual core cpu and 2 GB of ram.

Usually after about 30 to 50 GB is copied to the external hard drive,
my computer starts getting this error message when robocopy
tries to copy, "insignificant system resources ...".

Does anyone know why I am getting this error message ? Is USB2
robust enough to have 150 GB written over it during a 24 hour period ?

Thanks,
Lynn

Look in the XP Event log and see if there are any clues. This sounds
like the Event ID 2011 problem related to IRPStackSize, which may need
to be raised. Look this up in the Microsoft knowledge base.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I forgot to mention that the networking on the PC locks up also. And I
tried this on my file server (a dual opteron pc), locks it up also.

I did not used to have this problem when I was running Intel motherboards
and Intel cpus. Makes me think that I may get another Intel motherboard
and dual core cpu next.

Sounds very much like an application or OS limit being reached.
Switching back to Intel may have no effect at all.

Arno