I am using a network storage and it is mapped to a network drive on my PC. When I need to copy files between the network drive and a local drive of the PC, it usually takes much longer than copying files within the local drive. It is quite an expected thing because it is through the relatively slow network. However, when I try to copy or move files within the network drive, it takes far much longer. I think it is because the PC bridges the copying operation; the files are first buffered to the PC through the network and then copied again to the network drive through the network. However, what I can not understand is that the moving operation takes as much time as the copying operation. Moving files within local drives takes little time because it just updates the file pointers without changing the physical locations of the files, but this seems not to be true for network drives. Is it correct? Or, is there a way to schedule copying or moving files within a network drive without going through the PC?

Here are some ideas for tuning 1. It depends...? Play with parameters of network card with respect to packet size. Play with parameters like autotuning 2. xcopy is faster than copy. 3. Unless you make use of QoS, disable it. 4. Use more network cards like one with faster transfer rate Rgds Milos

Here are some ideas for tuning 1. It depends...? Play with parameters of network card with respect to packet size. Play with parameters like autotuning 2. xcopy is faster than copy. 3. Unless you make use of QoS, disable it. 4. Use more network cards like one with faster transfer rate Rgds Milos

What kind of network storage device is this (brand, etc)? Some are essentially file servers and do allow device-based file operations. By the way, the points Milos raises are all good. A particular issue of importance is that copying using a traditionally command-line tool - copy, xcopy, or robocopy - will proceed much faster than one done through the GUI. For more troubleshooting help, it would be useful to know some specifics - the NAS device details, what Windows version you're using, nominal network speed, and a rough idea of how long it takes to perform a large copy/move operation (and the overall size and number of files/folders in the data set).

Hello. Here's the additional information. The network storage I am using is Buffalo LinkStation (LS-WXLB1A). This device supports gigabit connection. Also I have Windows 7 professional (OEM) installed on my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T410). The storage and the laptop are connected through a gigabit router with cat. 6 ethernet cables. The storage supports the ethernet frame size up to 9694bytes, but the laptop supports only up to 4k bytes (Intel 82577LM). So I set the frame size to 4k bytes both on the stroage and the laptop. With all these settings, the maximum rate of copy that I can get is around 6MB per second, when copying a single file of around 1GB through the GUI.

That's the LinkStation Duo, correct? If you log in via the Web Access page with an account registered on the Linkstation - NOT admin or guest - you can do Move and Copy via web browser; when doing that, it's purely happening on the LinkStation, and not going through your PC.

That's the LinkStation Duo, correct? If you log in via the Web Access page with an account registered on the Linkstation - NOT admin or guest - you can do Move and Copy via web browser; when doing that, it's purely happening on the LinkStation, and not going through your PC.