Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 456
MrSeb writes "Ahh, the Windows Explorer progress dialog. For years it has been struggling to figure out how to calculate how long our copy and delete operations would take, sliding the progress bar back and forth in a seemingly random, haphazard way, the laws of time all but ceasing to exist — five seconds remaining one moment and 13 minutes the next. That's (almost) all going to change, with the arrival of a greatly improved file management experience in Windows 8. Copy, move, delete, rename, and conflict resolution are all being overhauled and it's about time!"
And The Rest Of What Makes Windows Garbage (Score:2, Interesting)
* Drive letters - WTF???
* \ instead of the standard / - leave it to Microsoft when faced with picking a sane choice and and a mind boggling idiotic one...
* Can't boot to a standard desktop from any Windows OS media
* No application bundles
* The Registry - LOL. Why lose just the settings for a single application when you can lose everything! Thanks Microsoft!
Re:W7 is pretty good about it (Score:5, Interesting)
I think you meant to say "... performs better with larger files".
You nailed it though. My big gripe with Windows it how it seems to spend more time fiddling with metadata / directory entries than the actual contents. On an SSD with 700mb/sec writes and 0.1 msec access times, I'd expect it to churn through a few thousand files per second at the very least. That's not even factoring the disk cache. All those MFT updates seem to drag it right back down to spinning-disk speeds when dealing with numerous small files. You know, like a source tree or a directory full of images.
As sequential storage performance continues to improve, filesystem overhead is becoming the primary bottleneck.