Windows 7: Deleting, 3 hours remaining

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Ace

Okay, I just had to post this:

Deleting, 3 hours remaining

Yes. Seriously. How is this possible? I’m just deleting some folders on my NAS…

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  • http://www.robertpendell.com/ Robert Pendell

    Part of it has to do with network speed and the other part is the 10k or so small files. It always takes a long time to delete a large quantity of files regardless of overall size. When dealing with small files the overhead becomes huge on the drive movement. You will get the same kind of effect on a local drive too. Just not as severe.

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