December 2009
1 post
Tips for Speed - Copying Data from CDs
The Frustration
Have you ever wondered why it takes forever to copy a CD worth of files up to the network? In litigation support, this task happens every day. But why is it so slow? There are lots of factors, but some include:
Anti-virus is checking each file for viruses
There is a large I/O overhead for reading thousands of individual files
There is a large I/O overhead for writing...