Copy files from partition to partition too slow, SATA hard disk.What should I do£¿
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Copy files from partition to partition too slow, SATA hard disk.What should I do£¿
I have 3 partitions in linux, all reiser format.
Copy small file is ok. Copy big files from partition to partiton, like 1.4G dvdrip movie :
It's about 11 MB/s at beginning , soon the speed slow down , the slowest speed is about 3.4 MB/s, most of time the copy speed is 5 Mb/s .
This speed is very slow. What should I do ?
My hard disk is 80G 7200rpm sata.
on SATA SuSE 9.3 (XFS) copying 3.4 GB on the same disk between two partitions took 2:50
It would depend on FS, controler (SIl is worse than nVidia), other disk intensive processes
I have not changed anything specific.
I have Seagate 120MB (Hitachi worked as well until disk died) SATA connected to nvidia SATA controler (there are some problems with SIl because of design), XFS file system and option noatime set in fstab. Disk is divided into /, /boot, /home, and swap (obviously). There is a problem with your hardware I am afraid. Though it is possible that something happened with your SuSE installation. I have seen worse (and better results) than mine, but yours is "unhealthy". I would try some disk diagnostics.
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