Hard drive being slow problems

[aigomorla]

okey im having some problems with the drive accessing too slow. I only have this problem when i try to go into a folder that has 400+ sub foldiers and 12000+ files. i think its a index problem. Anyone know of a way to speed the access up? sometimes the system hangs explorer for 5 sec to access that dayam folder.

BTW the hard drive is a 750gig 7200.10 seagate p4 3.0ghz 1gb ram, its my NAS box for just pure storage. There is nothing wrong with the drive as i have tried transfering it on my raid raptors and i get the same problem.

oh also im accessing the drive over 1gb lan connection.

And yes ive tried defrag and no help. :\

Incase ur wondering what the folder is, its not porn. i know someone would have a field day in this thread unless i mentioned this :X

 

[nova2]

opening a dir on winxp sp2 on a partition (NTFS, 16kib cluster size) dir containing 23,000 files (with no subdirs) hangs for around 4 seconds for me.

hd = seagate EIDE 80gb, 7200rpm, 8.x firmware

via cmd.exe dir/w/a (on the same path) takes around 3 seconds.

seems normal, at least for NTFS.

if it bothers you *enough* I guess you'd want to consider testing different filesystems, or just split up the files in multiple dirs.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: nova2
opening a dir on winxp sp2 on a partition (NTFS, 16kib cluster size) dir containing 23,000 files (with no subdirs) hangs for around 4 seconds for me.

hd = seagate EIDE 80gb, 7200rpm, 8.x firmware

via cmd.exe dir/w/a (on the same path) takes around 3 seconds.

seems normal, at least for NTFS.

if it bothers you *enough* I guess you'd want to consider testing different filesystems, or just split up the files in multiple dirs.

GAH! this is the answer that i hated to hear. I figured that its the stupid cluster partition. I tried setting the cluster smaller, i heard smaller cluster for more smaler files and large clusters for large ones. If there any other way to fix this issue like a program that would automatically index it better then windows?

Thanks for your help!

 

[nova2]

perhaps some FTP client which can cache the directories contents. (flashfxp can do this), unless you cant make use of one.

perhaps locate32 would interest you? (google it)