RE: Moving files - critique this?



-----Original Message-----
From: Hank Arnold (MVP) [mailto:rasilon@xxxxxxx]
Posted At: Sunday, May 11, 2008 5:25 AM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Moving files - critique this?
Subject: Re: Moving files - critique this?

RnR wrote:
On Sat, 10 May 2008 23:02:08 GMT, "Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Kerr [mailto:juan.kerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Posted At: Saturday, May 10, 2008 11:54 AM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Moving files - critique this?
Subject: Moving files - critique this?

Vostro 1700 laptop.
Vista Business.
1.8 Core 2 Duo.
2GB ram.
160GB hard drive partitioned c: d: e: f: g: h: i: and j:

Attempting to move 2 files:

1 @ 4.02GB
1 @ 1.02 GB

from i: to j:

It takes approx 9 minutes during which the system is generally
unuseable; nothing else going on apart from the normal Vista
processes.

Is this a "normal" sort of time for such a data transfer or is
there
something I need to tweak?

All observations gratefully accepted.
Seems about right to me, since you've likely made it worse by
partitioning, not better. It has to do a full seek from partition
to
partition between every read and write.

I have to ask, why would you have seven partitions on a 160GB
drive?
I
have 3TB drives with one partition.


Tom, I agree that 7 partitions sounds a bit like overkill but it
really depends on what you will use them for. For example I have
the
same size drive and I have 3 partitions but that may not work for
you
or him.

It may not be what you think. My Dell E5520 (with Vista) came with an
add-on to read all the various memory cards. When the system came up,
I
had C: 220GB(OS), D: 10GB (Recovery), E: (DVD) and F: - I: ("Removable
Disk").

--

Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services

He clarified that it was all partitions on the 160GB drive. To each his
own :).

Lots of the partitions were partitions I have on my server, not my local
machine, so I'm not that different, other than location.

.

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