When you come back, you will have the job done. You can tell FASTCOPY to copy and you can walk away. Please consider FASTCOPY as I have found FASTCOPY to have NET SPEED AS FAST. For instance it happened the same to the RAID 0 array (2x Seagate ST1000DM003 installed in 2013 summer) that serves as main hard disk of this system: it got over 400 MB/s in one or two first proofs (quite logical as these disks can do a bit over 200 MB/s each in their fastest zone) but afterwards about 360 MB/s only, in both Windows Vista and XP.Reply It’s not the first time I get “brilliant” speeds the first day(s) or Windows session(s) with a storage device but never so fast after that. But FastCopy works :) and gets about 22 MB/s (Explorer 15 MB/s), that is close to what I’m actually getting in XP: not 30 MB/s anymore, but about 24 MB/s with Explorer and 25 MB/s with FastCopy, always with some few 1492 MB files.

Vista’s Robocopy gets the same speed as Windows Explorer (I’ve tried the version already installed in the OS, that is not the newest one and lacks the option “/MT” for multithreading, the only one that I’ve tried). I’ve tried Robocopy and FastCopy v3.40 in Vista with my fast USB sticks over USB2. Has anyone done this before for this problem?Reply If there isn’t solution for this inside the OS I wouldn’t mind install one of these 3rd party copiers. Although I cannot tell anything about Win7, I’ve included it in case I point a known problem with known solution (there must be thousands or millions of reports stating Vista/Win7 is a lot slower than XP in file copying through USB, and I’ve tried the suggestion of switching the stick policy from “optimize for quick removal” to “optimize for performance” w/o success, for the case this policy doesn’t matter in XP either, yo do it and the stick is equally fast).

If I have left the computer unattended, I’ve used the file creation dates to see how fast has been the process. XP spends about 50 seconds per file, and Vista 1’40”, quite consistently in both cases.

3 of the files (1492 x 3 = 4476 MB) fill a DVD+-RW that was my ancient backup system, in short funny but slow, and are below 2GB in case the file system. These files are partition images splitted.

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