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Hi all

We have some nice spec HP 8200 workstations - 2gb ram, 2 X 160gb sata disks (all speced from HP website) running XP pro. Page files all correctly done.

Problem is when copying from disk 1 to disk 2 it takes ages - like 2-3 mins for 200mb! Any ideas??? why so slow!

Any help appreciated

Andy

NWMark

is the 200 mb one big file or thousands of small ones?

are the drives heavily fragmented?

thats all i can think of but even if both of the above are true id still expect to get more than ~1Mb/sec on new SATA drives.

Mark

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one big file and brand new machine ! ie should be in tip top order

lightning101

Have you got SATA switched to performance mode in the bios or raid controller ?

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not running a raid controller - does this need to be done then?

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Was it the intention to use RAID1 mirroring when you set-up the PC? The only other thing is maybe the Anti-Virus is set to strong, and iis triple checking files for viruses when copying.

Criss

If you copying IDE drives, ie from the master(the one with your OS) and the slave(the one with your pictures, movies and music on it) IT will be very slow!
If your drives are connected using one cable which is usually the case it will be very slow!
Its normal! Try talking to someone down a phone with somebody else talking to them, its hard, the computer finds it hard to send and recieve data using the same cable!
If you have another PC pop the hard disc in there and use an ethernet cable! OR an external HDD! Only ways I know to get around it!

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There is no raid just 2 seperate disks - c: and e:

The disks are SATA - I still think it should be faster!?? surely?