How long to copy 10gb of data from one HDD to another?

defender · 27 Jun 2006 at 14:04

Can anybody give me a rough figure? Both disks are 7200rpm.

Cheers!

H3x0rc!st · 27 Jun 2006 at 14:08

only way to find out is by just doing it mate, lots of things affect the speed of data transferring from one hard drive to another

Mr Jones · 27 Jun 2006 at 14:08

How are they linked? Via the mobo's IDE, SATA or with an external drive which involve Firewire or USB1.1 or USB2?

defender · 27 Jun 2006 at 15:52

Dr Jones said:
How are they linked? Via the mobo's IDE, SATA or with an external drive which involve Firewire or USB1.1 or USB2?

Motherboard's IDE, copying from slave to master disk...

SiriusB · 27 Jun 2006 at 15:56

In the time its taken you to post a reply from your original post you could have copied 10GB over several times.

SiriusB

defender · 27 Jun 2006 at 16:35

SiriusB said:
In the time its taken you to post a reply from your original post you could have copied 10GB over several times.

SiriusB

LOL! It's taking me all this time to organise all these files and folders that I'm about to transfer to my spare backup disk!

defender · 27 Jun 2006 at 17:18

Wow, just copied over 5 gigs in 12 minutes!! I forget how advanced technology is! The last time I copied files over I remember sitting for hours waiting!!

Thanks guys!

rpstewart · 27 Jun 2006 at 17:20

There are too many variables to give even an estimate of how long it'll take.

Not all 7200rpm disks are the same. I've had 14Gb 7200rpm disks that are probably a quarter of the speed of current 7200rpm drives.

10Gb in a few files will take far less time than 10Gb in a few thousand files as the disk heads have to move to update the FAT / NTFS logs with each file.

It depends what else is being done on the machine that may access the disk and hence contend with the copy.

Best advice - just do the copy and wait till it's done.

Silver_&_Gold · 27 Jun 2006 at 23:44

defender said:
Wow, just copied over 5 gigs in 12 minutes!! I forget how advanced technology is! The last time I copied files over I remember sitting for hours waiting!!

Thanks guys!

12 minutes :eek:

Only 5 Gigs :eek:

Takes me under 2 minutes to transfer 5 Gigs from my server/downloader!!

15k U320 SCSI and Gigabit for the win