Reduce or Control External Drive Data Transfer Speed

[HoppaLong]

Who would want their external drives to slow down. Me, that's

who!

Besides apps like BurstCopy that attempt to maximize data

transfer speed, are there any apps that can set the speed,

usually in Mbps, to any number you want?

XP and eSATA drives are like oil and water. They don't mix!

You can tweak the hell out of the system, it doesn't matter.

XP was developed before these super fast drives. Vista fixed

the problem by using dynamic virtual memory management.

If you want to read about how XP uses static paged pool and

paged table entries (PTEs) just Google the topic. Compare

XP to Vista in this area and you'll begin to understand the

problem.

Please, no more tweaks or registry hacks. If there is an

app that allows you to set the data transfer speed, direct

me to the link or site.

Thank guys.

[jcarle]

Short of writing your own file system filter driver, I don't believe what you want exists... (at least, I couldn't find anything like this).

[nitroshift]

TotalCommander.

[HoppaLong]

That name, TotalCommander, sounded familiar.

Back in the days of 95 and 98 there were freeware sites that specialized

in shell replacements or overlays. The overlay left Windows alone, but

gave you the option of using a different shell.

Several of these shell replacements got great reviews in the computer mags.

I never could convince myself to try one.

I was reading the TotalCommander features and their endless list of FAQs.

I don't see anything about controlling data transfer speed. Maybe they call

it something else.

Can you show me where in ghisler.com this topic is mentioned?

[nitroshift]

When you select the file(s) to be copied, press F5 then F2 and in the new window at the bottom you can set the transfer speed in kb/s. Hope this helps