In the past, I have used a USB to transfer a few video files from one computer to another. This time I have over 1 terabyte of movies and shows I’d like to transfer. What is the best method?
I know it will take a very long time
Quickest -
- Take the lid off the source PC put the HDD in it
- Copy the stuff.
- Pull it out
- Put it the other PC,
- Your done
Formatting the HDD my be optional.
Connect both computers over ethernet and rsync the data across. It will still take several hours over gigabit ethernet though.
Parallel port would be faster than serial, but if you’re using serial I’d go with Z modem for the compression and error correction.
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Take the drive from PC 1 and attach to PC 2 => copy / paste
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External drive
What file system do you get the most compatibility out of?
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If you want the bare minimum fast transfer and both PC are in local network, use Dukto-R6. It’s super basic file copying, you just need to drag and drop.
For more advanced options,the others have already pointed it out.
I have a PC in a spot of my house I can’t get a cable to. But that’s the PC I do my Blu Ray ripping and encoding on, so I keep a 5tb external drive for moving the files to my NAS afterwards. Sometimes it would take days over WiFi instead of minutes to hours over USB 3 twice. (and piss off my wife for saturating the wifi, heh)
So consider a powerline network adapter, or move the PC to a place you can run a cable.
My experience with powerline is pretty terrible. And there is no better place for it sadly.
This will depend on the relative placement of these PCs
I’ve been sending 10TB from one PC to another on my network over the last 2 days, it’s nearly done. It’s a wired network, and while sometimes I use tools like robocopy for more granular control over the the copy settings and logging of any copy errors, I generally find the standard windows copy tool to be faster.
1 Tb shouldn’t be too bad. You could try an external HD, but that becomes a double operation (1 copy to the drive, 1 copy off) or use your home network.
Create a share of the folder(s) you want to copy and then access from the new PC to copy and paste to. Speed will depend on your network speed AND drive speeds.
robocopy or rsync if you can’t place the drive in the target or an external enclosure.
You could go over a wired network.
I would write it to an nvme drive and swap that drive to the new pc
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rsync
over a wired network. That way, I can stop and resume at any time.I just transferred 12tb from one hdd to another via usb 3.0. Went at roughly ~180mbps and took 1.5 days