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Slow Copy Speeds 10 MB/s w/Teracopy and system Freezes!
First off, Happy New Year all. And thanks in advance to contributors.
I have looked at every thread on this issue and there doesn't seem to be definitive solution.
I've googled this on and off over the last two years and I don't have a solution.
I'd like to know if this is what is supposed to happen or are my speeds slow and capable of improvement.
I copied 90gb this morning to my PC from a WD 500 GB external drive. That took 2 hrs 44 mins. Admittedly there were numerous pauses in between.
I noticed that if I paused the copying process the system issues would go away. When I restarted, the system issues would start again. I also noted that Teracopy would report a 10-11mbs copy speed during prolonged copying, but after pausing and restarting would rocket up to between 66-78 MB/s and stay there for two file copies but never more. After that it would progressively slow until it got back to 11 MB/s.
I had three Firefox instances open while I was copying, two Word documents, and initially the system was unusable. After a bit the system was extremely slow but usable. Alt+Tabbing would cause a loading "This app is not responding" error. Eventually the app would load.
I noticed that RAM usage climbed all the way up to total 8 gigs usage.
After disabling MSE the system was still extremely slow, copying speed did not increase, but at least the system was now usable. RAM usage settled back at about 5 gigs.
I also noted that running any program that required UAC authorization would halt the system for about 3 mins. By halt I mean, music stopped playing, screen darkened, and mouse and keyboard unresponsive.
Is this expected/normal operation?