File Transfer Rate (Vista x64)

This seems to be an ongoing debate/topic with little light shed onto it.

Truth be told, this is one area where I'm completely confused.

In my personal situation, I have three total USB external hard drives, used for various purposes. Most say that it's because I saved money by getting USB (and NOT the beloved Firewire drives) that it's so slow...

However, given my specs, I'm feeling that there's something missing that could/should be remedied.

This is a wild, 2a.m. guess... but would tweaking the Pagefile settings affect this sort of thing? I'm not all about "hiking-up" the priority level of Windows Explorer via TaskManager (useless.)

However, perhaps I heard it somewhere, but the Pagefile idea seems to click, but again, that's a second area I rarely tweak for find reason to mess with.

I've got 8GB DDR2 RAM, 2TB HDD, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz a pop and, of course, the 3 external drives. Something's gotta be missing here.

Anyone care to help revisit this issue? ANY input, except the sarcastic or rude would be greatly appreciated!

THANKS, in advance.

Are you asking would tweaking the pagefile speed up your file transfer rate over USB?

ilikefree said:

Are you asking would tweaking the pagefile speed up your file transfer rate over USB?

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I wasn't too awake when I wrote that.

Essentially, yes, but I could very well have misunderstood the article.

At the time, I believe it was posted to Leo Notenbloom's (Ask Leo!) page or, perhaps, Techrepublic.com.com (two .com's!)

I've got this horrible feeling that, despite the capacity of the hardware, that since it comes via USB connection to the PC (from what appears to resemble a Motorola Razr cell phone connector.)

If it helps, I'm using a Western Digital MyBook Essentials 300GB, Elements 1TB (times 2.)

Thanks for jumping in, by the way!!!!

Have a good one.

Erik