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Strange behavior after moving many files

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rinaldo00

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I have a directory with 1575 .mp4 files between 1-4GB in size each. They are recordings of live chat sessions with friends that I like to save for the memories. I moved them from 1 directory to a new subdirectory that I created inside of it. The move went quickly as I expected since the files were not really moved, just the data of the file pointers on the disk table get changed. I then created a new directory inside that directory (so now two subdirectories from the original) and moved them again. This time the move took much longer as if the move was going from one drive to another and when the move was over, I still had 1575 files in the directory but the free space on the drive went up from 4GB free to 22GB free. Even if somehow the disk got some free space back from some form of defragmenting of the drive, I doubt it would be that much.

This was on a 2TB NVME drive that is not the OS drive. The OS drive is just a 500GB NVME drive. Maybe the page file was being stored on the larger drive and that shrank?

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
A move within the same filesystem should never take long. Something is screwed up.
 
File system corruptions should result in io errors not only a longer copy time.
Is this on Windows with Tiering Support enabled?
Any hints in the System/ Eventlog?
 
My problem on I7 Laptop(Win 7) started with extreme slow videos watching from Youtube with fast enough internet. After some digging, I arrived at the suspect HDD. Reload drivers made no diff.

I had slow suspected HDD issues. I used Task/Resource manager to look at the read write times when MP4 files are being copied. I can't remember, but one direction (Read/write) took anything from 20 seconds to minutes(Slow), the other direction was always fast. The HDD passed every test I thrown at it. It was compared also copying to USB(Fast).
Reformat did nothing. Replaced HDD all ok.
 
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