craig588

I was just hired to transfaer over all of the data from someones 2 5400RPM 120G HDs onto their new dual 250G WD special edition raid 0 array. Well, anyways I started copying the data from the 1st one, and windows is estimating it will take about 100,000 minutes. In other words 70 days, and thats just for one drive. This guy has both of his HDs filled up completely with photographs. (Hes a professional photographer)

Is there anything I can do to speed up the transfer? I can't compress the files down because neither one of the HDs has more than 1GB of space left on them. Does windows miscalculate the estimiated transfer time on very large transfers such as this? It has been going for about a half hour now.

BWX

LOL, 70 days, that's hilarious. It can't be right.

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Matth

http://www.ppsoft.dk/hol_Copy_eng.htm - not the one I was looking for, I remember a few "fast" file copiers.

Still hunting...

If the drives are on different controllers, they should not be impeding each other.

http://www.codeproject.com/tools/multicopier.asp - still not the one I remember

craig588

They are on seperate controllers. Ones on the mobo ATA connector on its own channel, and the other 2 are on the mobos SATA connectors.

I'll check out that site.

Judas

.....windows does estimate incorrectly..

if all depends on the file size and whatnot... defraging the drive before coping helps a pile...

I moved 40+ gb of information from 2 drives.... through a network onto 1 drives.... Windows esitmated 10,000 minutes or so..but it was done in 22 minutes....

Everytime it finished one file...and started copying the next... the minutes would fluctuate a fair bit.... small files seemed to bump the minutes up.... large files would lower it drastically... (most of the files were 10mb in size)

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craig588

Acctually it finished in about 2 hours. I guess the estimation doesn't really matter as long as it acctually copies.