Saturday, March 23, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] G-Raids, MacDrive Pro

 

For FW400 41 MB/s is pretty much in line. For eSATA, that is extremely slow.
Either way, check drive's entry in Device Manager to make sure the drive
is set to optimized for performance and not "Quick Removal".

On 3/23/2013 5:32 PM, Jeff Kreines - Kinetta wrote:
> Forgive the cross-posting.
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> I am working with a Windows 7-64 PC with MacDrive Pro, and am getting ridiculously slow transfer speeds using G-RAIDs (mostly new ones, 2x 2TB drives, FW 800 and eSATA and USB2.
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> I chose these because I am working with people on Macs who want FW800 and I need eSATA for fast transfers.
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> So I try transferring a puny 56 GB file from the G-RAID to a nearly empty 4x 4TB internal raid. Via eSATA the transfer speed was so slow -- 13 MB/minute! -- that I switched to FW400 (don't have 800 on this PC) and the speed is 41.5 MB/second -- still ridiculously slow.
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> Assume this isn't a MacDrive Pro thing since I am not writing to the Mac-formatted G-Raid. Is there something about G-RAIDS that needs tweaking? I remember a similar problem with them about a year ago.
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> All suggestions appreciated!
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