Transfering Files S-L-O-W

Dan Sherman wrote on 3/23/2009, 9:56 AM
Transfered files from hard drive on my main computer to a raided stand alone USB D-Link enclosure.
Now I need to get veg files back on the the Vegas Pro 8 timeline and it is taking forever.
A files less than a minute long is take ten minutes to get back into Vegas.
Building audio peaks is what is taking so long.
Why would that be?
Thought this would be a good way to safely archive current projects, but I guess not, right?
NOw I'm thinking it will take me a month of Sundays to move the better part of half 600 GBs of data to my main editing computer.

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rmack350 wrote on 3/23/2009, 11:18 AM
Well, USB is USB regardless of whether the disks are in a RAID array or not. Any chance you have this thing connected to a USB 1.1 port? That would account for the slowness.

What kind of media?

Rob Mack
Dan Sherman wrote on 3/23/2009, 12:29 PM
Freed up now.
.avi, mpeg2, mpeg4, veg, .wmv files all opening lighteing fast on the timeline now.
Wonder what was causing bottle neck?
Problem was painfully slow audio audio peak building.
Noticed jerky playpack of files from that drive recently.
These would be nested project files, and playback of authored projects in DVD-5
Could this be a warning of a hard drive failure?
As you can tell i am no tech, though I wish i were.
musicvid10 wrote on 3/23/2009, 1:04 PM
If you are transferring / editing / saving files to a USB drive, that should be the only thing connected to the USB controller at the time. Other devices compete for the "bandwidth" slowing things down. Certainly 2 hard drives connected to the same USB controller is a recipe for possible problems.

USB is not my first choice for external drives. Neither is RAID.
I have more consistent results and fewer lockups with a conventional drive on Firewire.