I’m watching my backup program copying CD ISO images from my music collection to my Drobo 5D.
Each file is around 400Mb and it takes about three seconds for the “remaining bytes” to fall to zero.
The 5D then goes through a 10 second period of high activity (according to the activity light). After this, the backup program starts on the next file.
What might be going on during that 10 second interval?
If I could do something to eliminate that 10 second interlude, my backups would run very much faster…
i suspect it “finishes” writing to the cache… but wont move on to the next file until it is flushed to disk, hence the furious activity you are seeing[hr]
if its a backup program it is probably verifying the write… by reading it back, so it cant do that until it is actually on the disk, so it finishes the write to the disk … then it reads it back too
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i suspect it “finishes” writing to the cache… but wont move on to the next file until it is flushed to disk, hence the furious activity you are seeing[/quote]
I wondered if it might be some sort of cache flushing. This would be from the mSATA card into the disk volume, presumably.
I’ll check to see if SyncBackPro has write verification.