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From: Ablang on 5 May 2008 15:13 Thanks Robert. I couldn't find the original article but there is some mention of something at the website http://www.maximumpc.com/article/watchdog_january_2008 I will further investigate this before buying. "Tornado Gets Sucked In By Windows Vista The Tornado whips through large file transfers - unless you're using Vista After reading Maximum PCs review of the Data Drive Thru Tornado in the November issue, I purchased one; I routinely connect my laptop to another PC. The Tornado seemed like a good solution that didnt require mucking about with mapped drives and flaky network adapters. For the most part, the Tornado worked as advertised. However, I encountered problems when transferring a 24GB file between my laptop and a desktop computer (a Vista NTFS partition to an XP NTFS partition). Even though the laptop continued to show progress, the file on the desktop did not grow past about 4GB. When the transfer ended, I was left with 24GB on the laptop and a 4GB file on the desktop. I attempted to contact the company using the technical support email links on its website, but the links did not work. I also tried emailing the parent company but received no response. Can you help? Chris The Dog contacted Data Drive Thru about Chriss issue and a spokesman told the Dog that the company has no record of him calling or emailing the company. However, the spokesman agreed to make it right and contact Chris directly. For his part, the Dog tested the original Tornado that Maximum PC received and successfully copied a 10GB image from a Windows XP Pro machine to another Windows XP Pro machine. The original review was based on data transfers between Windows XP machines, as well. Both used NTFS, and the transfer was very fast. The Dog did, however, have odd results when copying files between a Windows XP Pro rig and a Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit machine. Similarly to Chris, a 48GB image file was truncated to 4GB, but a 10GB file made it through fine. The Dog spoke with a Data Drive Thru representative who said tests in its labs have been unable to reproduce such problemslarge files have been repeatedly transferred using the device without a hitch. In fact, the company said only two people have complained about any problem with the device: Chris and now the Dog. Although there was no solution at press time, Data Drive Thru was closely working with the Dog and Chris to find an answer. For a solutionhopefullywatch this space. Woof. " > ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: RE: The Tornado > Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 07:48:43 -0700 > > > This item got bad reviews in a recent copy of MaximumPC magazine. > The device is criticized for locking both machines up on large > files, with betrays the fault in its' design for having a > relatively small size memory cache. It's usefulness is for small > size files like texts and emails. It could likely fail you with > large size picture and video files. > > à Robert > -----Original Message----- > > On sale at Staples for $35 after $10 rebate. > > http://www.amazon.com/Data-Drive-Thru-094922621559-Tornado/dp/B000YEQG0U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1209950543&sr=1-1
From: Calab on 5 May 2008 16:16 > For the most part, the Tornado worked as advertised. However, I > encountered problems when transferring a 24GB file between my laptop > and a desktop computer (a Vista NTFS partition to an XP NTFS > partition). Even though the laptop continued to show progress, the > file on the desktop did not grow past about 4GB. When the transfer > ended, I was left with 24GB on the laptop and a 4GB file on the > desktop. I had similar issues moving files between a Linux PC and Windows PC. It looks like an SMB issue. What I found was that larger files could be copied closer to the root directory on the Windows PC. For example: - a 5gig file could be copied to C:\filename - the same 5gig file would fail when copied to C:\Archive\Video\Movies\Comedy\filename Also, during a large file MOVE, I would eventually recieve a "network not available" error message. After this error message I'd check the target file size and it would still be growing. Never could figure out the issue.
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