So I spoke a little too early on my last blog post about my new Western Digital MyBook World Edition.
I ran into some huge issues with it, I haven’t gone looking for a firmware update yet but that is my next step. However, the issue I found shouldn’t be in any version of the product so I wouldn’t be betting on it being fixed in a firmware update. Anyway I set up several RichCopy[1] threads to copy data to the unit. They seemed to be going ok only after a very short time, they started going slower and slower. I started at about 35% utilization on my network on my PC and it tapered down to about 5% and the copies took a couple of days to finish. Now only that, but whole chunks of files were missing. Now it could be a problem with my PC granted, however an identical copy to one of my Windows Server 2003 R2 Servers (Super Fast Virtual Mofo if you recall…) and it went very fast (Consistently 40%+) and finished within a couple of hours.
I haven’t seen any issues if single threaded copying is what I am doing. Sad really, I do so little single threaded.
joe
[1] If you don’t know what RichCopy is, I am sorry… If you do know what it is, it is version 2.51 so while I only get 3 threads, it isn’t calling the mothership and bailing out on me. I just spawn 5-10 instances of it and everything is good. I love RichCopy, kudos to Kenzaburo.
I am not familiar with RichCopy – but it sounds very interesting. Does it work with direct attached (External USB drive, like my Drobo)?
Thanks,
Rob
Richcopy is like xcopy but multithreaded, GUI based (can easily be fired in a script though), will also do FTP copies, and much more.
However, it is not publicly available which is why I said if you don’t know what it is I am sorry because you likely never will.
There’s a few foreign language sites that have copies of something called RichCopy. Would you mind posting an MD5 hash of the setup.exe?
From HashCalc the MD5 for richcopy.exe (I don’t have a setup.exe) is
93b1159e7237d4cc5109b0147cf01205