Transfer rate when transfering files

[schultzey11]

I have a Tyan Mpx 2426 motherboard with dual AMD Mp 2000+ processors. My system also has 512mb of Crucial ECC memory, 36.7gb Seagate SCSI hard drive (which is were I make the image of the dvd I want to copy), 160mb/s scsi controller, cendyne 4x dvd+r burner, and an additional western digital ide 120 gb hard drive for other storage.

I do video editing and when capturing video I capture to the scsi drive. I recently moved 20gb from my scsi drive to the western digital ide hard drive. It tool 20 minutes. That's a transfere rate of 16mb/s. For both drives being internal to my system I expected way higher. Any ideas?

 

[oldfart]

16 mb/s sounds like PIO4. Is DMA/UDMA enabled in BIOS and Windows?

 

[AIWGuru]

"Transfer rate when transfering files"

As opposed to the transfer rate when transferring....?

 

[schultzey11]

What do you mean P104? Not sure about bios, I will check tonight.

The transfere rate is what I figured base on 20gb of files taking 20 minutes to completely transfere from one drive to the next.

 

[oldfart]

Its PIO4 as in PEE-EYE-OH-Four. It is a slower older IDE mode that is limited to 16 mb/s.

 

[schultzey11]

Pio4 is the capability of the regular hard drive? What could be done to improve this, other than getting another scsi hard drive?

 

[oldfart]

Any modern HDD is capable of UDMA/2/4/5 (33/66/100 Mb/s). Be sure UDMA is enabled in BIOS and in WinXP. In XP (I'm assuming WinXP), look at the device manager ide controllers and be sure primary and secondary controllers are set to dma if available. It should also show the actual mode it is running in.

 

[schultzey11]

I have win 2000 pro, does that mean I need to change the setting in the bios?

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: schultzey11
I have win 2000 pro, does that mean I need to change the setting in the bios?

Goto your device manager (System Properties : hardware : Device Manager). Expand the "ATA/ATAPI Controllers" category (or similar) open the Properties screen for "Primary IDE Channel", go to the "Advanced Settings" tab and see what is listed for "Current Transfer Mode" for each device. (Repeat for Secondary IDE Controller).

Does it sasy PIO Mode for any of them?

Thorin

 

[thorin]

So what'd you find out?

Thorin

 

[NokiaDude]

Everything in a Windows based operating system is obviously slower than doing something in pure DOS. Of course your transfer rates are going to be snot slow, unless you wanna switch to DOS or build your own optimized HDD driver for Windows.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Everything in a Windows based operating system is obviously slower than doing something in pure DOS. Of course your transfer rates are going to be snot slow, unless you wanna switch to DOS or build your own optimized HDD driver for Windows.

I thought the opposite. I thought Windows had a disk caching ability which made file transfers faster.

DOS had a similar utility, smartdrv or something like that. Oh man, I feel bad I can't remember

 

[oldfart]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Everything in a Windows based operating system is obviously slower than doing something in pure DOS. Of course your transfer rates are going to be snot slow, unless you wanna switch to DOS or build your own optimized HDD driver for Windows.

There are plenty of optimized IDE drivers for a Windows environment. Microsoft and the mobo chipset mfgrs have drivers. Running in DOS will be PIO mode.