Extremely Slow File Copy

Mr. Analog · September 26, 2012, 09:48:59 AM

I think the HDD (or WinXP) is nearing death or something as recently it seems like file copy operations are slow as hell, I'm trying to push 4 GB from C drive to another drive and it's taking bloody forever (re: hours)

I'm not sure if WinXP is ready for re-install or if it's actually the drive.

Defrag doesn't show much fragmentation

The counter just keeps going up and up, very frustrating...

Any tools I can use to figure out if it's the drive?

Lazybones · September 26, 2012, 09:54:33 AM

1. Run a full checkdsk on both drives.
2. At least run the analysis function from http://www.mydefrag.com/ to see if it is a fragmentation issue. (note you normally need more than 10% free space to fragment a drive.
3. Find the Manufacture diagnostic tool for each drive and test them with that.

Tom · September 26, 2012, 10:06:01 AM

See if you also can't get an app to look at the S.M.A.R.T. data on both drives. Things of interest may be realocated sectors and error counts.

Mr. Analog · September 26, 2012, 10:22:39 AM

Found the issue, there was a file backup process failing silently to my Drobo and it was locking everything on C

My Drobo is nearly full so that's why so slow.

Thanks guys!

Thorin · September 26, 2012, 11:47:08 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on September 26, 2012, 10:22:39 AM
My Drobo is nearly full so that's why so slow.

DROBO HUNGRY!

FEED DROBO!

Mr. Analog · September 26, 2012, 12:57:21 PM

That's Ice Hot, Thorin. Ice Hot.

Thorin · September 26, 2012, 01:20:30 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on September 26, 2012, 12:57:21 PM
That's Ice Hot, Thorin. Ice Hot.

Damn, that was hard to find a matching image for. First I found the transcript for the episode, then I finally found the image of the Doctor drinking Fizzade:

Anyway.

Buy your Drobo some feed, err, drives.

Mr. Analog · September 26, 2012, 01:33:25 PM

Yepp... maybe this weekend

Thorin · September 26, 2012, 01:41:03 PM

Dammit, I have that whole series sitting on my Drobo waiting for me to turn on the TV and Xbox and watch it. The remote is within reaching distance and I'm sitting the living room working (no one else home).

must ... fight ... urge! It's worktime, not watchtime, dammit.

Mr. Analog · September 26, 2012, 01:43:28 PM

If you were running Plex you could stream it to your phone and watch it WHILE you work

Not that I would do such a thing with my Xoom...

Thorin · September 26, 2012, 01:48:04 PM

1. I don't own a smartphone (I'm in the minority in my family; it's just my six year old and me without a smartphone, the other four have one)
2. Why stream to a 3" phone or 7" tablet with a single speaker each when I'm sitting on the couch in front of the 50" tv with surround sound?
3. I could even just watch it right on my laptop if I were to do that - video on the right, work on the left

But I know if I started watching, I wouldn't get any work done.

Mr. Analog · September 26, 2012, 02:03:38 PM

I like having background noise on so, sometimes I just have stuff streaming right next to me.

Thorin · September 26, 2012, 03:02:26 PM

I get the background noise thing, I'm the same way. But I don't think the Paradise Towers serial would be background noise for me...

Lazybones · September 26, 2012, 03:07:09 PM

Plex has a dedicated desktop client and are trialing a completely browser based streaming interface. Build your library and sort it once run it anywhere http://elan.plexapp.com/2012/08/28/part-3-introducing-the-new-plex-web-client/

Thorin · September 26, 2012, 05:06:28 PM

Yes, I get it, Plex Is Cool. By the way, what kind of system is required to run it, since it transcodes on the fly?

Would my Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz, 2GB RAM, ATI 8400GS vid, WinXP box handle more than one stream (reading from a networked-not-USB-connected Drobo) while simultaneously supporting 3 or 4 logged in users, uTorrent running, iTunes running, Minecraft left logged in under one user and in active use under another?

Because that's my setup.