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Have ditched windows (again)... back to trusty old Ubuntu.
Started having a weird problem where copying files was really slow, even using an NVME drive or SATA SSD.... talking like 42MB/s, I tried those exact same file operations in Ubuntu (dual boot) and received what I expected of approx 160MB/s + for network copy on 2.5Gbit... and for SATA SSD approx 420MB/s +... and NVME approx 900MB/s +from internal NVME drive.
I hadn't changed a thing in windows, so that doesn't account for the abysmal copy rate. I don't really care that much as I can use linux for almost everything I do on a daily basis... but it's just another annoyance about windows. I still need to keep it unfortunately for those times when linux won't do it... or at least I haven't found a way to do it yet.
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I get u. Trouble is, if I stick with windows then I'm stuck copying files/folders at stupid slow rates now.... which makes a mockery of getting NVME external drives and 2.5Gbit networking... why would I want that?
Just to be clear, this problem with windows showed up out of nowhere, I was literally copying stuff fine just the day or so before. Then after trying to sort the problem out for hours, I decided to dual boot Ubuntu and try those same files to troubleshoot... and they were fine in Ubuntu.
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25 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:
I get u. Trouble is, if I stick with windows then I'm stuck copying files/folders at stupid slow rates now.... which makes a mockery of getting NVME external drives and 2.5Gbit networking... why would I want that?
Just to be clear, this problem with windows showed up out of nowhere, I was literally copying stuff fine just the day or so before. Then after trying to sort the problem out for hours, I decided to dual boot Ubuntu and try those same files to troubleshoot... and they were fine in Ubuntu.
That's a rather weird problem.
I don't think I ever encountered it, even back when I needed to copy 4tb of data to a backup drive (it was a drive on another PC in the network)
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On 5/31/2024 at 4:20 PM, Poinkachu said:
That's a rather weird problem.
I don't think I ever encountered it, even back when I needed to copy 4tb of data to a backup drive (it was a drive on another PC in the network)
Yeah, never encountered it before either, in around 30 years of PC building. I've encountered transfer problems before, but they were usually network related, or device related... this seems to be neither as both the networking and devices work fine under linux, and was also tested with other servers etc to rule those out also. Only thing I can think of is if windows had an update that broke stuff.
Anyway, in one way it was fated. I've been getting on fine with linux, I even found some workarounds so that I don't need windows any more for anything now.