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Slow read times on my HDD

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toto4398

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Hi,

I'm running XP Pro, SP2 and I have a fairly large collection of mp3's in a separate partition (there are four partitions totally). My problem is that whenever I open a folder that contains a lot of tracks, the first time I access that folder it takes about anywhere between 5-9 seconds to show the data in that folder. But the second and third and consecutive times there is no time lag...I have a gig of dual channel DDR2 memory and the HDD is a new Seagate SATA 7200 rpm disk. I even tried increasing the virtual memory but there is still no improvement...Any ideas or suggestions to get rid of this time lag will be much appreciated!!
Thank you.

specs:
C2D e6300 @2.33 GHz,
Gigabyte S3,
BFG 7600GT OC,
2 x 512 JetRam @667MHz
Seagate SATA 160GB @7200 rpm. (.09),
XP Pro, SP2
 
Separate it in small folders or defragment your hard drive. It's the normal behavior of windows with a large amount of files (above 500) into the same directory.
 
Ok, so I defragged the partition (even though the disk manager said it wasn't necessary) and there has been a slight improvement in the speed...And a lot of tracks would mean between 260-300 in the problematic folders (and about 30 gig of mp3's on the whole)
 
You may be able to get faster load times if you use Windows Media Player as your default music player and let it load those MP3's into its library.
 
One suggestion.... when you open the folder... what columns do you have showing? Just have name, size, type and modified... do NOT all the other stuff showing. It will take for ever to show up if you many MP3 or video files.

Just a suggestion.
 
Originally posted by: greylica
Separate it in small folders or defragment your hard drive. It's the normal behavior of windows with a large amount of files (above 500) into the same directory.
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No, it is not the 'normal behaviour' of windows. Slow access times on a large collection of files is a limitation of the fat file system, the poster is probably using NTFS which does not have this limitation.

 
No, it is not the 'normal behaviour' of windows. Slow access times on a large collection of files is a limitation of the fat file system, the poster is probably using NTFS which does not have this limitation.
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Explorer also tends to choke on large directories even if they're on an NTFS volume, but 500 isn't a particularly large number of files so I doubt that's the issue here.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
No, it is not the 'normal behaviour' of windows. Slow access times on a large collection of files is a limitation of the fat file system, the poster is probably using NTFS which does not have this limitation.
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Explorer also tends to choke on large directories even if they're on an NTFS volume, but 500 isn't a particularly large number of files so I doubt that's the issue here.
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That is explorer not Windows or the file system. Explorer has been known to do 'stupid things (tm)' when dealing with lots of files and trying to cache them. As someone else posted, it's probably the columns the OP has turned on and Explorer reading the ID3 tags.
 
That is explorer not Windows or the file system. Explorer has been known to do 'stupid things (tm)' when dealing with lots of files and trying to cache them. As someone else posted, it's probably the columns the OP has turned on and Explorer reading the ID3 tags.
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Yea and when I saw the OP say "whenever I open a folder that contains a lot of tracks" my first guess is that he's using explorer and no amount of defragging or anything will help that.
 
Right...Thanks a lot for your replies guys...Nothinman, you're right...I was using explorer to open my music folders...And I did have a lot of columns turned on...There was a definite increase in the read time once I turned off some columns..and then when I went with the 'list' view, there was no real noticeable lag at all! I guess thats it...Maybe this thread can be considered closed for now! Thanks again! 🙂
 
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