copying tons of smaller files - speed I should be getting?

[QueBert]

Source is a 1tb black destination is a 500gb older Seagate, maybe 7200.9. Instead of cloning the partition since it's just data I did a cut and paste. There were 365k files. Right now it's creeping along at 9mb/s. I know with lots of small files I'm not going to hit the high end speeds, but 9 seems low. What program can benchmark this for me? I use HD Tech for each drive on it's own and they're good. The Black is like 85mb/s average and the 500gb IDE is about 55mb/s average. Took a few hours to copy 92 gigs of files, that seems way too long even with a shit load of DOC and HTML files.

Windows 7 64 bit with all the latest drivers + p35 MB with the WD Black on the sole SATA-II port, other HD is IDE, along with another IDE HD on the same channel.

 

[Modelworks]

Give teracopy a look, it considers what you are actually copying and to what drives same/different and adapts the copy order to match. Works great for small file copies and even better when using a network.
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

Also realize that what you get with hdtach you will not get with copying files.

 

[QueBert]

Thanks I'll look into Teracopy, but there's something up with my Seagate drive, I copied a 1 gig file from the Black to it, got about 14mb/s. copied the same file to the other IDE drive which is a WD, an older one. Got about 45mb/s. Tried another big file and same results. My external USB drive copies to and from faster than this Seagate. I checked my device manager and UDMA5 is enabled so I don't know what's causing it, there's something wrong though.