Improve USB Hard Drive Speeds and File Copying
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A community member emailed to tell me he recently bought a PCI 2.0 card. It’s advertised to get speeds of 280 megabits/second. In reality, he’s only getting about 84 megabits/second when transferring files. He knows this isn’t right.
There are a few options here. It’s a possibility that your CPU just isn’t capable of handling higher speeds, although that is doubtful. Definitely check your buffer size. How small or big of a block will determine how fast it will read or write.
A tip from Wirelesspacket is to check and see if your external hard drive has FireWire or eSATA. Either of these options will give you much greater speeds.
You can also right click your “My Computer” icon on your WIndows desktop. Click on the “Manage” option. Under System Tools on the left, click on “Device Manager”. In the right pane, click the + sign next to “Universal Serial Bus Controllers” to expand the menu underneath. Then, you can double click on the HUB. Once there, you can find out how much power is required, and make sure that is how much it is getting.
Finally, SC_Thor suggests using the free program Copy Handler to move files. Copy Handler program is a small tool designed for copy/move files and folders between different storage medias (hard disks, floppy disks, local networks, CD-ROMs and many other). Copy Handler can move files up to 7 times faster than normal Windows copying.
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26 Comments
nunikili
October 18th, 2007
at 3:29pm
you need one more monitor to allow sun tanning via LCD, make sure sure you get the SUNTAN driver v.3.568 otherwise Vista will give you the infamous blue screen, hope this help ;-)
rooboy69
October 18th, 2007
at 6:31pm
audio ****
nunikili
October 18th, 2007
at 10:29pm
you need one more monitor to allow sun tanning via LCD, make sure sure you get the SUNTAN driver v.3.568 otherwise Vista will give you the infamous blue screen, hope this help ;-)
snake786123
October 19th, 2007
at 1:16am
hi
will vista ultimate edition 64bit work on my pc which is currently xp pro 32 bit
rooboy69
October 19th, 2007
at 1:31am
audio ****
mark1davidson
October 19th, 2007
at 3:39am
For maximum bus throughput, you’ll need to stripe multiple drives.
fuckyoufox
October 19th, 2007
at 6:37am
stick with xp. i dont think 64 bit os works on a 32 bit processor, but a 32 bit os works on a 64 bit processor
snake786123
October 19th, 2007
at 6:49am
sfe thanks for reply
snake786123
October 19th, 2007
at 8:16am
hi
will vista ultimate edition 64bit work on my pc which is currently xp pro 32 bit
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October 19th, 2007
at 8:28am
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fuckyoufox
October 19th, 2007
at 11:56am
even if vista works, it’s fun to use for a month or two but then you’ll run into something that only xp can do and you’ll go back to xp
fuckyoufox
October 19th, 2007
at 1:37pm
stick with xp. i dont think 64 bit os works on a 32 bit processor, but a 32 bit os works on a 64 bit processor
snake786123
October 19th, 2007
at 1:49pm
sfe thanks for reply
Windows Vista Torrent
October 19th, 2007
at 3:31pm
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fuckyoufox
October 19th, 2007
at 6:56pm
even if vista works, it’s fun to use for a month or two but then you’ll run into something that only xp can do and you’ll go back to xp
madhi19
October 20th, 2007
at 12:24pm
My comstar external drive has both usb and eternet connection capasity. I used both and it like night and day.
madhi19
October 20th, 2007
at 7:24pm
My comstar external drive has both usb and eternet connection capasity. I used both and it like night and day.
ad5665
October 20th, 2007
at 8:01pm
i downloaded copy handler to test my hard drive to my psp and i was getting speeds of 2/4megabites
ad5665
October 21st, 2007
at 3:01am
i downloaded copy handler to test my hard drive to my psp and i was getting speeds of 2/4megabites
NODDYFISCHER
October 26th, 2007
at 4:30am
it always is. Turn the volume off I say!
NODDYFISCHER
October 26th, 2007
at 11:30am
it always is. Turn the volume off I say!
johnaiton
November 6th, 2007
at 6:45am
it’s actually a great mic he’s using,
just he has noisy pc fans
so chris must have some kind of noise reduction used which causes noise to cut off, and when it’s on you hear the pc fans which then sound like audio hiss
he should instead get a quieter system
(or upgrade his pc cooling)
then turn the noise reduction right down
Papa0254
November 22nd, 2007
at 10:20am
capp after turn off there is capp what is that capp?
OniBonklers
January 4th, 2008
at 2:58pm
Name one thing only XP can do that Vista cannot.
ZinayH
February 4th, 2008
at 2:06pm
copy handler is great!!!
thanks for the video Chis!
beavkil
April 15th, 2008
at 10:43am
wouldn’t also the speed of the hdd limit it