Why does it take about 10 mins to move 800meg file...

[CtK]

Why does it take me about 10 mins to move a 800 meg file from one partition to another partition on the same hard drive??

its a Maxtor 160 gig HD 8meg cache
split into 3 partition
its been defragged
DMA is enabled

the HD is on my server
its a Asus A7A266, 1.2ghz athlon, 512 meg PC133
Win XP Pro SP1

im not using the ATA133 card tho
u think that could be it??

please help
thanks

 

[kehi]

what asus motherboard is it? Does it have ata66 or ata100 connectors? Also, what OS is it?

 

[charlie21]

That sounds about right. When you copy a file from one partition to another on the same hard drive, the drive's read/write heads spend a lot of time physically traveling from source to destination and back on the drive. If you were copying from one drive to another, then it would be a lot faster.

 

[FishTankX]

Yes, the read heads must jump back and forth between two positions.

 

[CtK]

Originally posted by: kehi
what asus motherboard is it? Does it have ata66 or ata100 connectors? Also, what OS is it?

Asus A7A266 i think it has ata100
Win XP Pro SP 1



then why on my system below link
it doesnt take that long??

thanks for the replies

 

[Nebor]

Highly fragmented drive?

 

[charlie21]

Which hard drive in you main rig are you benching this against? Is it the OS drive or a data drive? Same question for your server. I had my WD800JB as my OS and data drive for a long time, and was absolutely amazed how much faster it is now that I'm using it for just data.

 

[CtK]

Originally posted by: charlie21
Which hard drive in you main rig are you benching this against? Is it the OS drive or a data drive? Same question for your server. I had my WD800JB as my OS and data drive for a long time, and was absolutely amazed how much faster it is now that I'm using it for just data.

my main, just a data drive


the server only has the 160 gig
C: OS
D: DATA
E: DATA

i was transfering the bin file from E: to D:

 

[charlie21]

The only IDE disk that I have is a data drive only and it did a 800 MB file copy to itself in a little less than 2 minutes. Can someone out there with an IDE OS drive try this and see how long it takes?

 

[AnImuS]

Originally posted by: charlie21
The only IDE disk that I have is a data drive only and it did a 800 MB file copy to itself in a little less than 2 minutes. Can someone out there with an IDE OS drive try this and see how long it takes?

I moved an 800MB test on my WD 40GB 2MBCache 2 paritions...
1:25 seconds using my pc below.
ctk:
Have you checked in the device manager to make sure what ultra mode its running? it should be in mode5 since its on ATA100...

Also do you have any other IDE devices on the same cable?
Is so just try removing the other device and see if it helps anything...

 

[billandopus]

That seems really slow. I have an Maxtor 80gig 7200rpm 2 meg cache drive and an 800 meg transfer would be ballpark 2-3 minutes across partitions on a really old comp.

 

[Nebor]

I moved the Asheron's Call 2 Demo file, 882mb, in 38 seconds.... Using 2 Western Digital 80GB 8mb cache Caviar drives... via onboard Promise controller in RAID 0.

I think large files is where the RAID shines. I seem to beat the non-raid folks by about 5x.

 

[CtK]

Originally posted by: AnImuS

Originally posted by: charlie21
The only IDE disk that I have is a data drive only and it did a 800 MB file copy to itself in a little less than 2 minutes. Can someone out there with an IDE OS drive try this and see how long it takes?

I moved an 800MB test on my WD 40GB 2MBCache 2 paritions...
1:25 seconds using my pc below.
ctk:
Have you checked in the device manager to make sure what ultra mode its running? it should be in mode5 since its on ATA100...

Also do you have any other IDE devices on the same cable?
Is so just try removing the other device and see if it helps anything...

ya i checked the BIOS
no other IDE devices on the cable

i think i figured it out it
this MB i got from a friend and it didnt have the driver disk
and since i installed WinXP it picked up all the drivers needed for the MB even the audio so i never thought about it again since i was only gonna use this PC to download and hold stuff
but when i try moving files it took 4ever!!
so i went to www.ali.com the chipset maker of the MB and d/l the ultra IDE drivers
i tried it this morning b4 goin 2 work and a 150meg movie took only 10-20secs b4 it took like 2-3
its much better thanks everyone 4 ur help

 

[StraightPipe]

takes me about 1:30 -2:00. I'm about to go raid 0 to speed up my file sharing/downloading.

I've got lots of movies(700mb) and TV shows(50-200MB)

 

[billniceguy]

do u send any movies to friends...i want to send small 20-30 meg 10 second movies to friend, but cant do in hotmail or yahoo...so how can i do it?, tnx, bill

 

[StraightPipe]

I used icq for a long time (it works well, but it's been 2-3 years), but these days i mostly use CD's. you can also setup a FTP site and they can download from there.

 

[thraxes]

2:40 for 700MB from one badly fragmented partition to another
0:30 from OS to Data drive.

all on my main rig (KT333, 2x WD600BB 5400Rpm)