Moving Files

Shadz · 19 Oct 2014 at 00:35

Hi Guys,

I am going to be getting a new HDD soon as mine is now getting very old and
I'm in need of a new so will be getting a 3-4Tb drive.

What I would like to know though is I have 900Gb of data that I will need to
transfer to the new drive, what is the fastest way of me doing this as I'm sure
Windows will takes ages to do this.

Thanks

CaNsA · 19 Oct 2014 at 04:00

sata3 > sata3

zola25 · 19 Oct 2014 at 09:10

Sata3 > Sata3 as said above. Any copy from a mechanical HDD will take a while, it'll be limited by the speed of the slowest drive. For example if both drives can sustain 100Mb/sec - which may be optimistic - 900Gb will take around 2.5 hours to copy.

I'd be tempted to use robocopy to copy the data, that'll be as quick as it gets and it will be resumable if you need to stop it for any reason.

KIA · 19 Oct 2014 at 11:26

rsync.

Craig321 · 19 Oct 2014 at 11:28

I normally use BeyondCompare as that'll compare the data as well to ensure everything copied properly.

Shadz · 19 Oct 2014 at 11:56

Yes it will be SATA3 > SATA3. Thanks for the info guys.

SoulWings · 19 Oct 2014 at 12:14

Your best bet is to probably use a file transferring software to ensure it gets copied correctly.

mraerosmith1981 · 19 Oct 2014 at 13:37

Robocopy all the way

BlackAle · 20 Oct 2014 at 09:07

If you're copying from a mechanical HD it wouldn't really matter if you were connected via sata1.