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Is this just my two systems or what? I tried to full format two 750GB external HDs using Vista (SP1), one via USB, one via Firewire connection. The USB format ran overnight, approx. 8 hours and it was about 1/3rd finished when I said this is ridiculous and killed it. With the 1394 on the other Vista, same thing except I let it run less than one hour and it only had the first blue bump in the progress bar showing, indicating it was looking like another 24-36 hour task. Xp handled both full formats in the timely fashion I have come to expect (two or three hours maybe? I'm never sure since I usually start and walk on formats).
Anyone know why its so dead dog slow on Vista or what I'm missing to get normal speed formats?
Also, I just fired up Premiere Elements and I was going to do a little editing across the network which is a little slow in XP (compared to a file that's native to the machine) but again, its dead dog slow in Vista to generate what Premiere calls a Peak file, which I think is a sort of indexed meta-edit file. In XP it might take 1.5 to 2 minutes to generate that file over the network with a .650 gig source wave file. So far the first Peak file generation took 36 minutes in Vista and the second is not looking any faster.
So what gives there? I looks like a poor network interaction to me.
Other than that, I really don't have any complaints about speed and performance and it was in fact because the two systems running Vista are more capable that I was trying to use them for formatting and network editing.
Anyway, defenders of Vista unite, and tell me what's going on...
Anyone know why its so dead dog slow on Vista or what I'm missing to get normal speed formats?
Also, I just fired up Premiere Elements and I was going to do a little editing across the network which is a little slow in XP (compared to a file that's native to the machine) but again, its dead dog slow in Vista to generate what Premiere calls a Peak file, which I think is a sort of indexed meta-edit file. In XP it might take 1.5 to 2 minutes to generate that file over the network with a .650 gig source wave file. So far the first Peak file generation took 36 minutes in Vista and the second is not looking any faster.
So what gives there? I looks like a poor network interaction to me.
Other than that, I really don't have any complaints about speed and performance and it was in fact because the two systems running Vista are more capable that I was trying to use them for formatting and network editing.
Anyway, defenders of Vista unite, and tell me what's going on...