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Good find. Differences between Windows 7 on your side and Windows 10 on my PC of the handling of the NTFS format and small files.

Well we got that problem solved. I still need to figure out why this transfer takes so long. It will likely take me some running of multiple test comparisons doing ...

NTFS, 4096 bytes block size.

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I see size on disk as 4,096 xCSxXenon, 27 Jul 2021, 21:16

That's a similar Midi file that Therube posted for comparison in regards to file properties which is from his PC.

He was pointing out what I had posted before that.

See here:

Here's that particular file if anyone would like to try further inspection.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DOZCua5XsFL28_kKGeuFO56jCyPmCbWl/view?usp=sharing

Size on disk: is interesting - 0 bytes?
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Midi with 0 byte size on disk.png


That's a great observation. Got me wondering if these files got corrupted somewhere along the way. So I just opened up that Midi file I posted above in the Reaper DAW software and it had no gripes opening it, displayed ...

Well I was basing it off the other factors like transfer speed and estimated file sizes.
The first picture was running 10 times slower


I guess that's where I'm confused. A 24 minute total transfer I wouldn't even have questioned but it's that 10 times slower of over 4 hours it actually took to ...

100 items/s is about exactly what I expect a high density portable drive to handle.


Great to know.

However, sanity math check would seem to indicate differently. :D

147,340 Files/100 Files per Second= 1,473.4 seconds
1,473.4 seconds/60 Seconds per Minute= 24.5 minutes.

At least I think my ...

Here is the top layer folder info that took 4 hours to complete the transfer.

These are some of the typical files contained in these folders. I observe they typically range in size around 50-200 Bytes.

Other things I considered. The folders these midi files are in, include an "@" sign in their name. Unsure if that causes any issues.

Crystal Disk Read/Write test results.
https://i.ibb.co/DLqrzjk/Crystal-Disk-Results.png

Anything look amiss?

I dunno, without having done further testing but for now chalking it up to the high quantity of small file sizes seems to be pretty taxing when copying to another drive in windows. I ...

Crystal Disk Info

I ran a Chkdsk on the drive from Windows command prompt, results posted below. It's formatted as NTFS 4096 block size. It's now closer to 50% full, since I had transferred a bunch of other audio files to it after this transfer that seemed to take forever to complete. The 1st thing I usually do is ...

Thanks for the responses. I will try to disable anti-virus next time to see if that has any improvement. I don't believe it's the drive speed, it's a USB3.0 5400RPM, 5TB Seagate Portable Backup Plus drive, 25% full, which isn't fast by any means but when I transfer larger files of say 10GB in size ...

Hi, I was just curious to know if my experience is to be expected.

I have a bunch of Midi (*.mid) files that I'm doing a folder transfer (mirror folder pair) from a SSD to a HDD. The entire content of the folder is only 168MB in size, but there are a total of 147,340 files in this folder with an ...