Question for Vista users.

You mean a speed decrease in access and reading of the hard drive? Nope I never seen that on VISTA. I transfer stuff within my raid's and also my USB 2.0 external and no noticeable behavior like that. That behavior sounds like an antivirus scanning all the files first or something.

dja2k

 

Vista has slower file copy times. Noticeably slower. Can't say if this is common on all systems but Microsoft intends to address this specific issue in SP1 for Vista.

 

Well it might be hardware independent because my XP and VISTA file copy times are about the same give or take a few.

dja2k

 

Certainly not anywhere near the same on my machine. It looks like the MS fix may just be for network copies. However if you want evidence that it's a common problem (which I happen to have on my underspecced E6600, 4GB of dual channel, quad raptor, 7900GTO love machine) then check out this thread http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1358057&SiteID=17 where the first Microsoft staffer responds saying

or google "file copy slow vista" and see how many threads you can find. More threads than Vista can handle

Vista has three annoying issues IMHO:

1. PAT/Memory Remap being poorly implemented and causing problems with hardware (usually TV Cards)
2. Slow file copy
3. Audio subsystem so crippled with DRM it effects fidelity

 

TV cards are indeed a problem and so is the DRM stuff, but hey not arguing, my xp is faster than vista in all the other areas.

dja2k

 

Another article that may have some further info.
Vista slow copy