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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:57 pm  Post subject: Slow Transfers
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Finally got my new pc and have now got a sata drive but i put ny old ide on aswell, all up and running fine but transfering stuff from the sata to the ide drive is taking forever, is this normal or is there some thing i can do to speed it up ?


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:44 pm  Post subject: Re: Slow Transfers
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As far as I know the S in SATA stands for Serial. Whereas IDE is parallel. Guess which one is faster. :googley:
IDE however is more error prone and seems to get replaced by SATA in today's computers. I don't own SATA drives yet, so I can't tell about similar experiences. But it seems natural that the SATA harddisk is slower then the IDE one.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:49 pm  Post subject: Re: Slow Transfers
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sata is faster but no, check your IDE controllers/channels in device manager and make sure they are all in DMA mode and not PIO mode.

PIO mode is evil.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:29 pm  Post subject: Re: Slow Transfers
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PIO is my prob, Secondry IDE channel, Device 1 is in PIO mode :matrix: both devices set to auto detect


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:40 pm  Post subject: Re: Slow Transfers
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Ok i tried every thing i can think of now and i cant seem to change the mode on the drive. been thru all the setting in bios and the only ones that work mean 1 drive is in pio mode. I am trying to run this on the same cable as the dvd drive with the dvd set as master, i also have 2 sata drive on the go too, board should be up to the job but cant seem to sort it out. any ideas welcome :beerchug:


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:27 pm  Post subject: Re: Slow Transfers
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dont let it copy to the other drive. it takes forever.

drag the files with right-click and select "move here"

goes a good bit faster. but all data needs to get passed through the CPU, so a slower one will process slower.

Sata is definitely faster than IDE, despite it being serial.

but moving large amounts of files will take a while no matter how you slice it.

Moving 100 gigs from one of my drives to the other took about 4 hours.


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