Your file copy is going to run at the speed of your system, and if you
need to copy a terabyte it's going to take a while. There are systems
that copy files several times faster than Windows, but they also cost
several hundred times what a Windows machine costs and are only of real
interest when large fractions of a petabyte are involved. The only real
solution is to not sit there while the files are copying.
I am an "IT place", and though I have quite a bag of tricks for copying
files, particularly from damaged disks, none of them is going to run any
faster than the disk drives. It's not like tape replication where you
can run cassettes through at 4x normal speed, disks run at whatever
speed they were made to run at, there's no way to spin the platter
faster and the heads couldn't write much faster anyway.
I recommend Cobian Backup for this application. It's free and easily
configured to maintain a mirror of whatever set of files you want. It
doesn't spend time copying files that haven't changed, so updating the
collection is pretty quick. As long as all target drives mount as the
same drive letter, it doesn't care whether the target has all but one
file already on it or none at all, although a copy to a new drive will
take far longer.
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
<http://www.educ.umu.se/%7Ecobian/cobianbackup.htm>
Van
On 27/11/2010 8:11 PM, pixellle@aol.com wrote:
>
> All the discussion about online storage leads me to ask this question.
>
> I use portable external hard drives for my photos. I've had redundancy
> copies, but now want to keep a copy off-site for extra security.
>
> I have a 1 TB external drive that I'd like to copy or clone. (I use a
> PC.) But if I tried to do this with Windows Explorer and the Windows
> copy function, it would take me forever.
>
> I started to research this, and found some "fast file-copying"
> software, including some freeware (specifically, TeraCopy). But it
> seems that although this is a smarter way to copy, it's not
> necessarily faster. Apparently, with this software, you can pause the
> copying process if you need to, and you can instruct the software to
> skip over problems instead of getting stuck at a dialog which waits
> for a response. That means you can more successfully walk away while
> it does the work. But the reviews seemed to say it didn't really work
> much faster.
>
> Do I need to take my 1 TB drive to an IT place to have it copied? Is
> there any better way to do it myself, rather than breaking it into
> smaller chunks and taking weeks to get it done?
>
> I'm betting there's a smarter way to do this that I just don't know
> about. If anyone has a suggestion, I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Beth
>
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