Ah yes the "small file copy" program. For Every file that has been copied the system has to find space, reserve the space, write the data, probably use some kind of journaling/cache, we are pasted 2010 nowadays!, oh and only can be sure the data is safely written after a quick check. So the ACTUAL WRITING of a file is a small part of the whole chain. But, that is better then to just trust it to be written right.<br>I have DVD-RAM discs, which do the whole process including reading the file to see if it has been copied right. So the limited speed of the drive itself... is halved due to this requirement. <br>Big files? Easy time, a lot of small files, make some coffee we are here a while! It makes the most lovely <b>bock bock bock</b> sounds trying to safe files under 10kbytes.