Brian - you may like to try the trial version of HDtune
http://www.hdtune.com/
Jez
On 26 March 2015 at 17:46, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Something is still seriously wrong. 5.5 MB/second is not very fast but
> something you could live with. It's also normal for performance to vary
> depending on what section of the disk is being used. The outer tracks are
> faster than the inner tracks by maybe 2:1.
>
> I don't know the answer but am beginning to suspect the software you're
> using. I suspect it may have a memory management bug. Can you check the
> total memory in use while its running? Can you tell if it's paging?
>
> If your computer has a small memory it also possible that your continuance
> of "normal operations" is interfering... especially if the software has
> memory management bugs.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 3/26/2015 11:33 AM, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Just for the record, an update.
>> Encouraged by Chuck's last posting that I saw, I revisited the tool in XP
>> that
>> enables drive formatting, stopped the slow backup that was taking place,
>> and
>> did a full format of the drive onto which my backup is intended to be
>> written.
>> That took about 2 hours, which I expected.
>>
>> To correct Chuck's reasonable assumption, I have only 215 GB of data to
>> back up, not 1 terabyte.
>>
>> Having done a full format, I started a new backup using NovaBackup again.
>>
>> It started out looking promising; about 750 KB per second, and gradually
>> rose to a great rate of 5.5MB per second. Within 6 hours though it
>> started to
>> steadily decline, and now it is running at 726 KB per second and the
>> estimated completion is forecast at an increasingly long time; now at 60
>> hours :-(
>>
>> Looks as though I have no option but to grit my teeth and put up with it.
>>
>> Thankfully, normal computer operations can continue throughout this time.
>>
>> 61,000 files totalling 30 GB done, 187,000 files totalling 186GB to go ...
>>
>> Cheers, Brian
>>
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