Quick Vista Copying question. How fast should it be?

[Tuffers]

My main OS disk is split into two partitions C and D. When copying from C to D I get transfer speeds of around 10Mb/s. Is this normal?

It's 55Gb worth of files if that helps.

 

[badbob]

No. Do you have SP1 installed? That fixed the same problem for me, slow HD & LAN transfers

 

[Tuffers]

Yeah this is SP1. It is a vLite version though. Maybe i've removed something that I shouldnt have.

 

[Mattus]

It depends on the speed of the drive, but it depends most of all on the type of files. Is it lots of small files, or a few big files? Big files copy much faster.

Here's my WD 640GB copying one big file onto another partition:

And this is the same drive doing the same thing with lots of smaller files:

Biiig difference.

 

[Craig321]

Big files copy much faster.

It's not so much that big files copy faster, it's more the fact that if you're copying hundreds of files that are e.g. 100KB or less then the speeds reported won't go over ~100KB/s (IIRC).

My main OS disk is split into two partitions C and D. When copying from C to D I get transfer speeds of around 10Mb/s. Is this normal?

It's 55Gb worth of files if that helps.

10MB/s does sound a little slow, especially as you're copying to the same drive.

Although as you are copying to the same drive wouldn't the copy speed be around half as you'd be doing e.g. 20MB/s reading and 20MB/s writing on one drive?

Try Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier: http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=29 and see if it's faster.