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I have three Maxtor HD drives attached to me recently re-arranged system:
C: is 80Gig with only system and program files; Primary Master
( D and E are CD)
F: is a 300Gig Maxtor internal for storage of data, mostly jpg files.
(G, H and I are a card reader, presently living on a USB 1 hub which also
talks to keyboard, mouse, printer, etc.)
J: is a 160Gig external Maxtor on the USB 2 / Firewire PCI card. This was
the addition which started me thinking!
I have put together a folder of 118 jpg files which total 501 MB; that is
0.5Gig in my book!
I have just measured and checked the following times:
C to C copy = 55 secs.
Copy from C to F (internal) = 3 minutes 40 sec.
Move from F back to C = 3 minutes 45 sec.
Copy from F to J (external) via USB2 = 4 minutes 30 sec.
Copy from J to F (Internal) via USB2 = 4 minutes 35 sec.
There is no other activity on the computer except for the various services
etc.
Running Task Manager shows that CPU activity is low during all of this,
except for a peak at one minute intervals
which occurs wether copying files or not. I have run Spybot and Ad Aware to
see if they have any effect on this spike.
No effect!
Please let me know how long a similar copy takes on your machine!
Your results and comments will be very much appreciated.
Pat
I have three Maxtor HD drives attached to me recently re-arranged system:
C: is 80Gig with only system and program files; Primary Master
( D and E are CD)
F: is a 300Gig Maxtor internal for storage of data, mostly jpg files.
(G, H and I are a card reader, presently living on a USB 1 hub which also
talks to keyboard, mouse, printer, etc.)
J: is a 160Gig external Maxtor on the USB 2 / Firewire PCI card. This was
the addition which started me thinking!
I have put together a folder of 118 jpg files which total 501 MB; that is
0.5Gig in my book!
I have just measured and checked the following times:
C to C copy = 55 secs.
Copy from C to F (internal) = 3 minutes 40 sec.
Move from F back to C = 3 minutes 45 sec.
Copy from F to J (external) via USB2 = 4 minutes 30 sec.
Copy from J to F (Internal) via USB2 = 4 minutes 35 sec.
There is no other activity on the computer except for the various services
etc.
Running Task Manager shows that CPU activity is low during all of this,
except for a peak at one minute intervals
which occurs wether copying files or not. I have run Spybot and Ad Aware to
see if they have any effect on this spike.
No effect!
Please let me know how long a similar copy takes on your machine!
Your results and comments will be very much appreciated.
Pat