What is going on - 5 minutes to copy 300MB file???

[Mary]

I have a external hard drive on my USB2 port.

I copied a 300MB file and it took over 5 minutes - plus another 2
minutes just "Calculating how long it will take".

Have I got something set up wrong or is this just Vista??? I hooked it
up to my XP Pro laptop to check it wasn't the external drive and it
did it in a few seconds.

I have read a few complaints about Vista slow copying but this is
crazy.

 

[PvdG42]

I have a external hard drive on my USB2 port.

I copied a 300MB file and it took over 5 minutes - plus another 2
minutes just "Calculating how long it will take".

Have I got something set up wrong or is this just Vista??? I hooked it
up to my XP Pro laptop to check it wasn't the external drive and it
did it in a few seconds.

I have read a few complaints about Vista slow copying but this is
crazy.

Are you up to date on patches? At least one patch issued through Windows
Update addressed this issue and made significant improvements for most
users.

 

[theclyde]

I copied a 300MB file and it took over 5 minutes - plus another 2

minutes just "Calculating how long it will take".

Have I got something set up wrong or is this just Vista??? I hooked it
up to my XP Pro laptop to check it wasn't the external drive and it
did it in a few seconds.

Count yourself lucky it only took 2 minutes to calculate how long it
will take. Slow file transfer is very much an issue with Vista. Get
used to it.

Also, check to make sure you are not running media player. Dropping
Windows Media Player dramatically sped up my USB drive transfers -
seems the wonderful WMP was scanning the drive for DRM issues which
slowed down everything else.

 

[Mary]

Yes, I do have that patch.

I also found a copy of the MS White Paper about Vista SP1 and this
seems to be one of the issues that will be addressed.

I HOPE SO.

I can't believe Microsoft were not aware of this when they released
Vista. What made them let Vista loose with an issue like this?

 

[Mary]

Media Player was definitely off.

Count yourself lucky it only took 2 minutes to calculate how long it
will take. Slow file transfer is very much an issue with Vista. Get
used to it.

Also, check to make sure you are not running media player. Dropping
Windows Media Player dramatically sped up my USB drive transfers -
seems the wonderful WMP was scanning the drive for DRM issues which
slowed down everything else.

 

[flambe]

Updates do not fix the problem.
Vista is so fundamentally flawed that only a complete rewrite can help.
Saturday, while my 84 year old mother watched, I copied a 280mb file from a
CD to a Vista laptop hard-drive.
This also took about 4-5 minutes. That is longer than it took to create the
CD on an older XP laptop with a slower CD drive.
Even my 84 year old mother wondered what was wrong with the computer.
"Its Vista" is all I could say, as in, "Its Chinatown."
I wish she had said, "Wow!"

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Updates do not fix the problem.
Vista is so fundamentally flawed that only a complete rewrite can help.
Saturday, while my 84 year old mother watched, I copied a 280mb file from
a CD to a Vista laptop hard-drive.
This also took about 4-5 minutes. That is longer than it took to create
the CD on an older XP laptop with a slower CD drive.
Even my 84 year old mother wondered what was wrong with the computer.
"Its Vista" is all I could say, as in, "Its Chinatown."
I wish she had said, "Wow!"

Did yu have your 84 year old mother watch so she could verify the time for
you? She should be playing cards or knitting, not dealing with Vista! That
almost borders on abuse!!!!!

 

[Mary]

So does Vista taking 5 minutes to copy 300MB!!!

Did yu have your 84 year old mother watch so she could verify the time for
you? She should be playing cards or knitting, not dealing with Vista! That
almost borders on abuse!!!!!

 

[john]

Yes, I do have that patch.

I also found a copy of the MS White Paper about Vista SP1 and this
seems to be one of the issues that will be addressed.

I HOPE SO.

I can't believe Microsoft were not aware of this when they released
Vista. What made them let Vista loose with an issue like this?

....financial gain

 

[sntholiday]

Tranfers between internal HDDs take very little time with Vista. I can
transfer folders of lossless music files, sometimes over 1 gb in size, in
less than 2 mins.

 

[Zylstra]

Is it actually taking that long, or is it just saying its going to take that
long?

 

[theclyde]

Is it actually taking that long, or is it just saying its going to take that
long?

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In my case, the estimate(s) is never close to the actual transfer
time. I have learned to ignore the estimate dialog.

 

[Charlie Tame]

In my case, the estimate(s) is never close to the actual transfer
time. I have learned to ignore the estimate dialog.

This was one of the fundamental problems that first caused me some
concerns. Surely the basic building blocks for any OS should be file
handling and in this day and age transfer across networks. Secondary
goes general purpose file things such as sorting, listing etc.

Sure the GUI stuff is important these days but making that very nice yet
leaving flaws in the fundamentals is something MS ought to be dismayed
at. It is also related to security, if you decide to copy something but
have limited time it should be possible to make an educated guess
whether to lock the machine now or do the copy. Given the size of some
things these days copying several GB is possibly going to make your
guess tens of minutes adrift.

 

[Robert Martin]

I can play DVD quality mpg's (3.2 GB per hour)
across the network with no problem.
It works with, Vista, XP or Linux, all work fine.

Windoze Media player works great for me.

You probably have something configured wrong.

You using a HUB or a Switch? 10 or 100 or 1000.
I use 100 with no problem.
I can stream across a 802.11G the same MPG's I mentioned above.
The only problem I have is when my Microwave is running.

 

[thetruthhurts]

I can play DVD quality mpg's (3.2 GB per hour)
across the network with no problem.
It works with, Vista, XP or Linux, all work fine.

Windoze Media player works great for me.

You probably have something configured wrong.

You using a HUB or a Switch? 10 or 100 or 1000.
I use 100 with no problem.
I can stream across a 802.11G the same MPG's I mentioned above.
The only problem I have is when my Microwave is running.

good luck.....see:
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/005270.html

 

[Previously Tiberius]

LOL see these... such REAL screenshots are appearing all over the net

http://www.tothepc.com/archives/vista-speed-record-2007-131yrs-to-copy-168mb-of-pics/

http://panacea42.com/vista.html

 

[DarkSentinel]

LOL see these... such REAL screenshots are appearing all over the net

http://www.tothepc.com/archives/vista-speed-record-2007-131yrs-to-copy-168mb-of-pics/

http://panacea42.com/vista.html

Have no idea what the hell they were doing, but they messed SOMETHING up
badly. Here are screenshots from my system. I have a POS eBay Acer, and have
done nothing but add IDE to SATA adapters on my old Barracudas as my
particular mobo only has one standard IDE controller.

http://webpages.charter.net/darksentinel/Tech/Disk2disk.jpg
http://webpages.charter.net/darksentinel/Tech/Disk2CD.jpg
http://webpages.charter.net/darksentinel/Tech/Disk2Thumb.jpg

This is definitely a far cry from what has been posted on those other
screenshots. My system is a base Home Premium with only regular updates
installed.

 

[Previously Tiberius]

recent updates from windows update have fixed this problem

but with sp1 its even better

 

[DarkSentinel]

recent updates from windows update have fixed this problem

but with sp1 its even better

I know. The point I am trying to make is those screenshots that are floating
around are crap, and even a mediocre system like mine can disprove the
stories of ultra slow transfer times. Even before SP1.

 

[cheen]

they are not crap, it was like that a few months ago...

Have seen this sort of crap from Vista myself...

Dont even imply that hundreds of people posting screenshots are stupid and
you are the wise one.