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For some strange reason i found a copy of the very old 16 bit file manager of Windows 3.11 (1996). Im' using it on a windows XP Sony Vaio.
The 6 tests are performed from the same Laptop.

Test 1)
deleting 1.000 files from a NTFS network drive.

File Manager (XP)...........Explorer (XP)..........Explorer (Windows2000)..........FedoraCore+Samba
3 seconds......................7 seconds...............520 seconds!!!.........................<1 seconds


Test 2)
Copyng 1.000 files from one folder to an other on the same NTFS network drive.

File Manager (XP)...........Explorer (XP)..........Explorer (Windows2000)..........FedoraCore+Samba
8 seconds......................30 seconds.............32 seconds...............................3 seconds

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deadalvs

that's very interesting! I wonder if the Explorer versions are physically moving the data sector by sector, and the File Manager and Linux versions are simply re-naming the paths.....


Would be interesting to see the speeds when moving files from one physical drive to another...


It looks like the Win2K explorer may have been actually deleting the entire file, not just the first character as is typical.........

Nice to see that microsoft is heading the right way... Man....