Soldato
I'm posting it in this section as I think my query is more software than the general hardware or networks section.
I have a laptop and a desktop and they can both take type-C. If I have a USB cable with type-C at both ends, what happens if I connect the 2 computers together using it? Both are running Windows 11. I'm hoping that they can see each other in some shape or form and it would be a quicker way to copy files from desktop to laptop. Is there software, part of Windows or otherwise that can do this if it can't be done natively?
At the moment, I use a large USB stick to backup 350GB of data between the machines. The purpose of this is to have my laptop with my current data snapshot for when I go on city breaks. At the moment, it takes about 8 hours to copy from desktop to the USB stick, but once it's all on the stick, it only takes about 20 minutes to copy from USB onto the laptop! All connections are USB 3.0 and both machines have SSDs. I just want to somehow make the 8-hour stage a tad shorter!
I have a laptop and a desktop and they can both take type-C. If I have a USB cable with type-C at both ends, what happens if I connect the 2 computers together using it? Both are running Windows 11. I'm hoping that they can see each other in some shape or form and it would be a quicker way to copy files from desktop to laptop. Is there software, part of Windows or otherwise that can do this if it can't be done natively?
At the moment, I use a large USB stick to backup 350GB of data between the machines. The purpose of this is to have my laptop with my current data snapshot for when I go on city breaks. At the moment, it takes about 8 hours to copy from desktop to the USB stick, but once it's all on the stick, it only takes about 20 minutes to copy from USB onto the laptop! All connections are USB 3.0 and both machines have SSDs. I just want to somehow make the 8-hour stage a tad shorter!
Yes both machines take ethernet so I'll look at that, and will also look into incremental backups. I already have a Synology drive that does daily incremental backups from my desktop which is slow over the network (but effective) and was just looking for a quick data copy method between desktop and laptop every time I take the laptop away with me on a city break or when back at parents etc.