Normal?

immortalcloud · 24 Mar 2010 at 23:06

Hi,

is this normal?

I have bought a new hard drive today so i can put all my pics i have on numerous discs onto that drive. Well , i have 1.8gb to transfer and its absolutely making my pc crawl. It says it has 3hr 45min left to transfer all that.

Spec of my pc is intel i5 750 @4ghz, 4gb 1600ram and 2x samsung f3 spinpoint 1tb 32mb cache.

Matt

immortalcloud · 24 Mar 2010 at 23:07

Now it says 1hr left and doesnt seem to be dragging as much?

immortalcloud · 25 Mar 2010 at 08:36

No im copying from the dvd i backed up to priginally to the hard drive. It said the transfer rate was 700kbps. Is thet about right transferrring from a disc to a hard drive?

immortalcloud · 25 Mar 2010 at 08:41

Right ive tried to copy them again and it seems that its the folder that has pics and movies in the same folder (movies are only a few seconds each so not big files) Its this folder that drags a lot more than the others. Why could that be?

immortalcloud · 25 Mar 2010 at 10:01

Right...

Its about 4gb of data spread over a few folders. When i try to copy from disc and paste to the drive it does it but then everything else rags to the point that if i click on internet explorer it takes at least a minute to open and then drags like hell whilst using windows.

Its a quad core cpu, 4gb 1600hz ram this shouldnt be so slow doing this?

immortalcloud · 25 Mar 2010 at 10:28

Hi,

If i go to device manager and click on IDE ATA/ATAPI controlers it brings up ATA channel 0, ATA channel 0, ATA channel 1 and ATA channel 1

If i go to the last ata channel 1 and click properties i get this...

Is it right that 2 things are sharing this?

Matt

immortalcloud · 25 Mar 2010 at 10:59

Would this make the computer halt in sych a way that almost everything else is unusable?

immortalcloud · 25 Mar 2010 at 11:02

weird_dave said:
Your setup looks fine, tho not ideal if that's the 2 drives you're transferring between.
If you select all the files/folders on the DVD and right-click and go to properties, it'll tell you how many files there are, could you post this?
It just occured to me that the DVD drive will have a seek time too (obvious really, but there you go!) A quick google suggests it could be rather high (88 to 178ms!)
If the files aren't coming off the DVD in the order they were written, this could be what's slowing it down. 36000 DVD seeks would take an hour (100ms).

What other way could i cable it up?? , originally boot hd was on sata 1 , new backup drive was on sata 2 and dvd on sata 3 , and it was as above only it was ata channel 0 that had both on. No its the same apart from the dvd is on sata 4 now as i changed it to see if it made any difference.

Matt

immortalcloud · 25 Mar 2010 at 17:06

Hi,

Well these are the results of the C drive and my backup drive which is called the E drive...

Looking at this it seems like my main drive is quite a bit slower and that isnt even the drive i was trying to copy to???

Matt

immortalcloud · 26 Mar 2010 at 08:19

Anyone?

immortalcloud · 26 Mar 2010 at 12:44

Which DVD drive would you recommend as im going to take it back today. Its as loud as a train , always has been and the fact that it cant do what i want it to do , and what it should be able to do is enough reason to get another.

Matt

immortalcloud · 26 Mar 2010 at 14:57

Well.... After 40 mins wait at OCUk i got it swapped for the Sony DRU-870s and it is about a tenth as loud for a start , almost silent. Plus ive just succesfully copied the contents of the disc to the hard drive with no delay, crashing, freezing up.

Looks like it was the dvdrw after all

Thanks

Matt