Disturbingly Low Transfer Speeds

Greenlizard0 · 5 Jun 2008 at 14:59

I am trying to copy the contents of a DVD onto my hard disk from a SATA I DVDRW drive, and the transfer speed never tops more than 7Mb/s. This is way slower than USB2 for example and I'm sure something isn't right - but I can't figure out what?

Motherboard : Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe.
DVDRW : Samsung SH183A.

rpstewart · 5 Jun 2008 at 15:59

You ripping or copying files? A lot of drives seem to be limited in how fast they can rip as opposed to plain reads from a DVD-R(OM)

Greenlizard0 · 5 Jun 2008 at 16:10

I'm copying files over.

Ah fair ok, I have lots of time to kill so it's not a huge problem. Thanks for the information.

rpstewart · 5 Jun 2008 at 17:13

Big files or small ones? 7Mb/s would be about right for a bunch of 100-200Kb files. At that sort of size the overhead of the HDD having to keep the MFT up to date slows the overall transfer rate down.

Greenlizard0 · 8 Jun 2008 at 20:56

rpstewart said:
Big files or small ones? 7Mb/s would be about right for a bunch of 100-200Kb files. At that sort of size the overhead of the HDD having to keep the MFT up to date slows the overall transfer rate down.

Ooops forgot about this thread.

They're mostly large files - around a GB in size.