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Old 09-06-2014, 09:08 PM   #762
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But - I used QC to swap FN and LN on my 7000+ book media library (612GB, repeat 612GB) - it took a few seconds. That was on an NTFS compressed, indexed, AV active, 2TB, SATA 2, drive, on a 6GB i5.

The same library takes about 2.5 hours to backup to an external USB 3.0 drive (which is faster than the internal SATA2 - same disks, 2TB WD Caviar Black).

Why the difference - the renaming, moving & deleting is done within the NTFS Master File Table (MFT), which is preallocated (and usually contiguous) space, and it operates like a database, in that 'records' don't have to be written to sector boundaries.

BR
You have top-o-the-line equipment

My drive is SATA2 but my MB is only SATA(1) Most renames still only take seconds.

My backup Sata WD Green 1T (in a USB/SATA case) has dead folder issues that W7 or Linux does not seem to be able to repair
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