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
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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.
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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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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.
This will depend on the relative placement of these PCs
rsync over sshfs over Ethernet.
I transferred 10 Tb over night, but it depends on how many files do you have.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.
Shouldn’t actually take too long… I’d just take a couple sata cables. I transferred 6tb in about 12 or 18 hours, idr.
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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.
rsyncover a wired network. That way, I can stop and resume at any time.USB 3.1 Gen2 is hard to beat. 10Gbps. But for HDDs the HDDs themselves will be the bottleneck. For sustained file transfers, perhaps no more than up to 3Gbps, even if installed in the same PC. Good SATA SSDs may manage closer to 6Gbps. NVMe SSDs are likely to saturate USB 3.1 Gen2. Then PCI-e directly between installed drives is the fastest. Normal cabled network is only 1Gbps.
File transfers to/from external multibay USB DAS can be done in parallel, involving multiple HDDs, and come close to saturating 10Gbps USB3.1 Gen2 speeds.
Then there is thunderbolt.
Start a rsync transfer when you go to bed. In the morning it will most likely be done.
I just transferred 12tb from one hdd to another via usb 3.0. Went at roughly ~180mbps and took 1.5 days
10 GbE. 17 minutes.
Of course you need disks that can read/write at that speed (1.25 GB/s). Should not be a problem for NVMe SSDs.
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.