The wonderful speed at which...

[Romane]

....Vista copies files. 2.49 Kb/sec maximum. And yes, I have followed the
previous threads about what to do to try to speed it up, and not one of them
works.

But wait!! wait!!. Be still, O my beating heart - the file copy has just
suddenly had a burst of high speed, and achieved 30.9 KB/sec!! WheeeHoooo -
my rapidly dwindling faith in Microsoft may yet be restored. It may transfer
174Mb quicker than three or four hours yet!!!

R.

 

[Adam Albright]

...Vista copies files. 2.49 Kb/sec maximum. And yes, I have followed the
previous threads about what to do to try to speed it up, and not one of them
works.

It can be a tough nut to crack and confirms there ARE problem with
Vista's file handling.

But wait!! wait!!. Be still, O my beating heart - the file copy has just
suddenly had a burst of high speed, and achieved 30.9 KB/sec!! WheeeHoooo -
my rapidly dwindling faith in Microsoft may yet be restored. It may transfer
174Mb quicker than three or four hours yet!!!

Seen similar variations. You talking about over a network or just
between drives in your system? With today's drives you should get
transfer speeds between 26-58 MB a second. Not a typo. Over a network
hard to say since there are so many variables. Don't confuse burst
speed with sustained throughput.

 

[Romane]

Seen similar variations. You talking about over a network or just
between drives in your system? With today's drives you should get
transfer speeds between 26-58 MB a second. Not a typo. Over a network
hard to say since there are so many variables. Don't confuse burst
speed with sustained throughput.

Between two drives on the same computer. 26 to 25Mb? That sounds more
acceptable - I have seen the rare occasion when it gets to 15 or 16, but my
most usual is closer to 6 to 8. Could be worse - transfer to and from my USB
drive is *always* absolutely abysmal.

All that said, this is using Windows Explorer. The one option that has been
discussed in the earlier threads is using another file manager, which is my
next option. From reports, that improves the file transfer.

And my network transfer speeds? Around 5 to 7 max on a 10/100/1000 network.
Again, will be interesting to see the difference with a third party file
manager.

I am envious (see the shade of green?) of those who have had zero issues
with Vista.

R.

 

[Jon]

Between two drives on the same computer. 26 to 25Mb? That sounds more
acceptable - I have seen the rare occasion when it gets to 15 or 16, but
my most usual is closer to 6 to 8. Could be worse - transfer to and from
my USB drive is *always* absolutely abysmal.

All that said, this is using Windows Explorer. The one option that has
been discussed in the earlier threads is using another file manager, which
is my next option. From reports, that improves the file transfer.

And my network transfer speeds? Around 5 to 7 max on a 10/100/1000
network. Again, will be interesting to see the difference with a third
party file manager.

I am envious (see the shade of green?) of those who have had zero issues
with Vista.

R.

What I've noticed here is that certain file types / extensions transfer
quicker than others. For example, transferring .bsc, .img, .iso files to an
external USB drive can cause major lock-ups, whereas if I zip up the same
files then they'll transfer in a few seconds. Noticed the same situation
under XP, but it seems to have worsened under Vista. By contrast some files
seem to transfer at lightening speed eg video files.

So one suggestion might be that if you tend to transfer particular file
types regularly, then you could try zipping them up first, or see if the
transfer speed improves if you exclude certain file types / extensions from
the transfer.

 

[Romane]

So one suggestion might be that if you tend to transfer particular file
types regularly, then you could try zipping them up first, or see if the
transfer speed improves if you exclude certain file types / extensions
from the transfer.

Had not thought of that. Bit of a pain, however, as I generally need to
transfer around 2,500 or so HTML files, images and audio files to a drive on
another computer, at the end of each days worth of updates, for purposes of
backup; these are then copied by my third party sync program to two other
drives on other computers (be damn unlucky for all three at the same time).
Zipping it, transferring it then unzipping it will end up a real pain.

I have tonight tried some third-party file managers, but they performed no
better than Windows Explorer, so still looking.

R.

 

[Kurt Herman]

I just copied 36,000 files (5 gigs) between 2 partions on my second drive,
took 10 min, at an average of 6.6 Mbs. Is that slow? I don't think so. I've
done similar on XP before upgraded, and it was about the same.

Kurt

 

[Adam Albright]

I just copied 36,000 files (5 gigs) between 2 partions on my second drive,
took 10 min, at an average of 6.6 Mbs. Is that slow? I don't think so. I've
done similar on XP before upgraded, and it was about the same.

Slow is a relative term. While yours are not real slow they is slower
than it should be. File transfer intra system depending on hard drives
you're moving files around on should be roughly anywhere from 25-55 MB
a second. There are many free utilities you can download that will
generate graphs showing real file transfer speed and some compare
various hard drive models so you can get a rough idea if yours are
performing up to par or not. I may not be exact on the numbers, just
as I remember, but surely anything under 15 MB a second isn't that
hot.