Impossibly slow file copy for small files – Windows 7

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As a web developer I deal with lots of small files, site graphics & icons, css files, etc. I also knew all about Vista and its appallingly slow file copy performance which Microsoft had the gall to claim was a “realistic improvement over Windows XP”. Its all well a good being able to copy an entire blu-ray movie about my machine in seconds, but copying a site onto a USB stick takes nearly half an hour!!!

It seems alas that Windows 7 also suffers the same affliction

Is there anything that can be done about it??

 

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It's just finished, 37 minutes to copy 14.4 MB (3,308 files) to a flash drive

Corsair 4GB survivor too

 

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Got Vista SP1? Didn't that improve file transfer

I'm running Windows 7

Its a rant more than anything, I've read the technical white papers that Mark Russinovich has written about the so called "improvements" to the file copy algorithm in Vista and Windows 7 but this level of performance sucks big time.

Sure its nice when I can copy a single 4GB database file backup to the same pen stick in just over one minute

progress eh

 

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My other machine at work has the same issue, transfering a large site (3000+ files) 100MB to a eSATA 500GB disk takes about 15 minutes.

Same disk, but a 4.4GB DVD backup, 2 minutes