Great question Nicky!
Peter
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From: "Nicola Sanders \(Telenet\)" <[email protected]
To: "Joseph Lee" <[email protected]>,"'Mike Welty'"
<[email protected]>,"'Robert Stigile'"
<[email protected]>,"'Braillenote Humanware'"
<[email protected]
Date sent: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:35:22 +0100
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Backing up
Hi Joseph,
Thanks for the clear explanation. I have a question: Do you
think that this hardware problem could also explain the fact that
there seems to be very little difference between the Apex and the
mPower in terms of the time it takes them to open large files,
despite the Apex's faster processor? Or is that more likely to
be a separate issue?
Best,
Nicky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Lee" <[email protected]
To: "'Mike Welty'" <[email protected]>; "'Robert Stigile'"
<[email protected]>; "'Braillenote Humanware'"
<[email protected]
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 4:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Backing up
Hi folks,
Just doing quick searches on Google. So far the results
suggests that it is
in fact the hardware that is causing the problem. The actual
procedure of
handling erase and copy on flash devices is somewhat hard for
many users to
understand... Anyone help me, please..
One thing that needs clarification: Windows CE 6 stores all data
on Flash.
Since Flash is slower than RAM and uses blocks to store data, it
would be
natural to see slowness when copying large files, especially
over six
hundred files at once. One simple test could be copying same
files and
folder over and over again to different folders on the same
storage medium -
in other words, carrying out backup procedure multiple times on
same data,
and noting the pattern. Does the file copy operation gets
slower? Does it
give you some errors about access denial of certain blocks
(unlikely)? Then
we have a hardware problem (if it does not occur on the mPower,
then it is
indeed the hardware, not software; although software counts, the
problem
would have been caused by the shift of storage from RAM to flash
and the
effects that it has on large file copy operations, such as
backing up
files).
Hope it was simple enough for beginners to understand... Again
sorry for
some difficult words...
Cheers,
Joseph P.S. I'm considering changing my major after not doing
well on my CS
midterm...
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Mike Welty
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 7:07 AM
To: Robert Stigile; Braillenote Humanware
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Backing up
Maybe they are looking at it? you people seem to forget, the
apex is just
the starting point on the windows CE 6 platform, and the
software is still
basically for the MPower. these software problems we have been
having, may
be caused by that. give HW a chance to correct errors and the
like before
saying they didn't do their job and all.
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From: "Robert Stigile" <[email protected]
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 09:51
To: "Braillenote Humanware" <[email protected]
Subject: [Braillenote] Backing up
Hello All,
This morning, I thought i would try backing up my flash disk to
see what
people are talking about with the Apex.
I have 10 mb of files, and when it finished, it said it copied
680 files.
This took 15 minutes to take place.
Clearly, this should not take this long.
Hw needs to look at the backup utility, and figure out why it is
so slow.
Take care,
Robert Stigile
E-mail: [email protected]
Skype: Robertstigile
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