hello all,
how long would it take to tranfer info from a 1tb hard driver to another using a laptop computer?
how long would it take to tranfer info from a 1tb hard driver to another using a laptop computer?
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June
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Many hours via USB connection. It takes a few hours for me to backup about ~400G of music/photos to external drives. -
It depends on the method of file transfer, USB being the slowest. Firewire or Gigabit Ethernet would be far superior. Another factor is: how much data are we talking about? Just because your drive is 1TB doesn't mean you're filling the whole thing. Lastly, is this one or a few larges files, or is it many small files? Many transfer protocols give you far faster speeds when it's fewer, larger files; not many, smaller files.
According to my calculations, on USB 2.0, you'd get from 5MB/s to 25MB/s, so if we pick a number, let's say 15MB/s, transferring 1TB of data would take 18 hours. You can compare this to about 5 hours for firewire or gigabit ethernet (on a good day, depending on other factors, too).
:/-Josh
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unfortunately USB to USB will be slow...if the laptop is decent you should get close to 20MB/s or 25MB/s.
If you laptop has an esata connection, if you plug one in with that and the other into USB that's your best bet.
Ideally a computer with two Sata connections you could use would be the quickest.Digital Audio makes me Happy.
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thanks all,
approx. 9mins per mkv file :MJune
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Yep no fun at all.
But at least that will go quicker than millions and millions of little < 500K files.
Big files transfer more quickly.
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-DanComment
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Quick help, please.
I'm sitting here with an ethernet crossover cable, a new computer and an old computer.
The new computer is connected to a broadband router, so the ethernet port is being used.
I want to copy some files from the old computer to the new... -
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OK I'm going at it alone. I've ordered the rs232 to rs232 cable and will probably do it tomorrow. I've read thru the doc about installation and I am good with MAC but I have a portable PC bought for this very occasion.
What I was double checking was that there are 2 files to create on...27 July 2005, 04:42 Wednesday
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