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Slow Transfers

Oct 6, 2007 3:55PM PDT

Boy, it just seems more and more that my newly built Vista PC is the culprit. Now I don't know if it's the hardware or software. My specs:-

-Abit IB9 motherboard w/ P965 intel chipset
-Intel 2140 CPU
-Seagate Sata I 80GB hard drive
-Seagate IDE UDMA 5 200GB hard drive
-Corsair 2x1GB PC2-6400 RAM
- XFX Nvidia 8500GT
-Benq DW1655 DVDRW drive

And the rest of the specs are insignificant. Now, onto the problem:-

When I test file transfer, they are slooow! Like this:-

-Sata to IDE hard drive transfer = 1.5-3Mbps
-Sata copy and paste into Sata = 3-4Mbps
-IDE copy and paste into IDE = 3-5Mbps

And if that wasn't bad enough, check out this:- Hard drive to USB flash drive = 500-900Kbps !

I don't know what to do. I installed all the latest drivers. I have very few programs installed. I've also disabled that feature in the control panel that uses minimum bandwidth for file transfer. So what should I do?

Why are my drives slow?

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Tell me about those drivers.
Oct 8, 2007 7:24AM PDT

Too often I find owners, builders that click the UPDATE DRIVER in Windows. You didn't quite tell all such as how you elected to support your SATA drive (in the bios emulating an IDE) or the native mode.

Bob

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Problem Solved
Oct 10, 2007 10:28AM PDT

I fixed the problem. Once I disabled the Windows Search Service, everything got nice and fast. Open Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, then Services, then Windows Search, and finally Stop AND Disable Windows Search Service. This worked for me. I went from 3Mbps to 20+Mbps.

Though, some people may want to try disabling Remote Differential Compression in Windows Features.

Oh, and my SATA drive is supported natively (Intel ICH8 chipset).

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See
Oct 10, 2007 12:20PM PDT