Slow Copy Windows 7 x64

[swain90]

Hi All,

I've been battling with a small issue with Windows 7 for a while now and I can't get to the bottom of it. For some reason when trying to copy files which aren't very big in size seem to take ages to copy from one directory to another.

E.g.

There's no way that it should take 60 seconds to transfer less than 1MB of files.

When i transfer larger files they seem to transfer at normal speeds. I've ran HDD Diags which show the drive to be fine so I'm just wondering if it's a x64 thing?

Cheers

Swain90

 

[asim18]

Seems fine to me.

88 small files totalling 1MB will always take significantly more time than one file totalling 1MB.

 

[anything I don't mind]

Try the copy with total commander and see if it helps.

Small files will always show a slower rate of transfer than a larger file. It is just the way the file copy works, it works in chunk and lots of small files taking longer to copy than one large files of the same size because it has to create each file and attributes.

 

[swain90]

I know that lots of smaller times takes longer to copy, however when I was running Windows XP (32bit) there's no way it'd take as long. UnstoppableCopier seems to transfer fine it just seems to be the Windows copier that takes ages for some reason???

 

[bledd]

Seems fine to me.

88 small files totalling 1MB will always take significantly more time than one file totalling 1MB.

Shouldn't take 60 seconds to copy 35 files at 10KB each though..


What AV do you have?

Checked eventviewer for hard drive errors?

 

[swain90]

It's a work PC so we're using McAfee.

I've had a look, nothing about any error's, I've tried running Disk Check and that didn't report anything either.

 

[Dolph]

I know that lots of smaller times takes longer to copy, however when I was running Windows XP (32bit) there's no way it'd take as long. UnstoppableCopier seems to transfer fine it just seems to be the Windows copier that takes ages for some reason???

You can't compare times in xp because the copy process was rewritten between xp and vista, and started being honest.

In xp, the copy dialogue didn't disappear when the file write had finished, but when the read had finished, making file copy appear much quicker than it actually was.

In vista (and 7/8 which share the same basic underpinnings), the file copy dialogue remains until the write has been completed.

Not that this is the root cause of the problem necessarily, as the copy still looks slower than expected.