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KYBoy
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_ 		13. April 2009 @ 19:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm tryin to copy a fairly large file (3.99GB) from my laptop's hard drive to my flash drive but the speeds are rediculously slow(less than 2MB/sec).
I ran HDTune and came up with these results for the laptop's hard drive:

HD Tune: ST9250827AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 1.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 2.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 1.5 MB/sec
Access Time : 58.0 ms
Burst Rate : 1.2 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 24.5%

Looks like the problem is with the computer and not the flash drive

And whenever I attempt the transer my computer runs slow afterward. Like I'm running DiskDegrag right now and its taking like 15mins just to ANALYZE the C: Drive

Other random info:
Vista
C: 67.7GB free of 225GB

Any solutions/ideas
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ddp
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_ 		13. April 2009 @ 22:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
check in device manager that the ide/sata controller is in dma mode not pio mode.
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_ 		14. April 2009 @ 02:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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KYBoy
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_ 		14. April 2009 @ 23:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It was already in dma, but I turned off the indexing and seems to have speed up, its transfering in the 50-60MB/sec range according to HD Tune.
Havent tried to actually transfer a file to my flash drive yet tho
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 14. April 2009 @ 23:22
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