> I'm copying data from an almost full 320 GB Seagate SATA 
> drive to a 320GB WD SATA drive. WD is new. Seagate has been 
> extensively used. 
> Processor is Pentium D (dual core) 2.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM. Both 
> drives are NTFS. Transfer is using XXCOPY in a DOS box, which 
> 
> What sort of data transfer rate would people expect?
> 
> I'm getting something around 2.5 to 3 MB/second (won't know 
> for sure until finished). This seems far too slow. It's been 
> running for about
> 24 hours now and it is almost complete. Setting task priority 
>


I Ghosted a drive that size the other day (both Seagates, I think), and it
only took about 3 hours.  Certainly wasn't all day.  I wandered off to do
something more interesting, but the transfer rate was showing around
2GB/minute, say 33MB/second.

That wasn't SATA, that was IDE, 80-pin connector.  Slower PC, 1GHz?, but
that's real DOS though, not a cmd shell.

I expect SATA to do better, something must be broken...

Tony

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