File load times on Raid

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bencorn

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I have a raid 5 setup currently with 4 2tb drives in my main computer. It has been running really well and haven't had any problems with it until recently. In one of my folders I have all my movies backed up, all the metadata, and cover art. If I use windows explorer to access these files from my media center it takes a very long time (minute or more) to load the movie. It takes the same amount of time when loading from my main computer as well. Loading the same movie from another folder (on the media center or main computer) takes less than 5 seconds. Leaving the file in the main folder but opening it with XBMC loads it within 5 seconds as well. Why is windows explorer take so much longer? With the files and all the different metadata files there are approximately 2000 files in this folder. Is this the reason for the time lag? Main PC is running windows 7 64bit, media center is running XP 32bit. LAN is 10/100 wired. It just strikes me as strange that the load times are that much longer when NOT running them through another program. Is this a folder setting that I have messed up? Should I put the files in groups like A-D, E-H........ kinda thing? Or just set XBMC to auto boot and stop worrying about it. I would like to fix it on the main computer end though because it is annoying to wait a minute for a file to load on the local pc. It takes less time to move it to another folder, load it, and move it back when I'm done with it.

Cliff:
1. Slow load time in main folder using windows explorer
2. Fast load time moving file to another folder
3. Fast load time in XBMC regardless of location
 
So over the network they are slow; what about when locally opening/testing them? If that is fast, perhaps the network layer is your suspect.

I've had issues with Windows like a non-responding printer on the network blocks explorer. But as i don't use Windows regularly anymore, i'm not sure about your issue. I would do benchmarks and try to isolate your performance issue; exactly knowing what variables affect it.
 
sub.mesa said:
So over the network they are slow; what about when locally opening/testing them? If that is fast, perhaps the network layer is your suspect.

I've had issues with Windows like a non-responding printer on the network blocks explorer. But as i don't use Windows regularly anymore, i'm not sure about your issue. I would do benchmarks and try to isolate your performance issue; exactly knowing what variables affect it.
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Opening the file locally from the same folder results in the same minute or longer lag times. Opening locally in XBMC is a few seconds. Same with the Media Center, folder takes minutes, XBMC takes seconds.
 
Sounds like a Windows Media Center/Media Player Issue. Its probably scanning the whole folder each time you click it
 
bencorn said:
If it is scanning the folder when I open it, that would make sense. How do I go about checking if that is the case? I have Avast anti virus.
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I would uninstall it and try again. Also you may need to disable thumbnail creation or some other features for that folder. What os are you running?
 
Tested the antivirus theory by disabling it completely and no change to load times on local machine or media center machine. Going to try folder options next.

OS is Win7 64bit on Main, XP 32bit on mediacenter.

Using Media Player Classic HomeCinema from the folder view on both machines. Going to get VLC to test if it is a MCP HC problem.

Any other ideas?
 
Update: VLC loads instantly. So it has to be a setting that is in MPC. Thanks for the help guys.
 
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