Wow! Transferring 637GB takes forever!

[coolVariable]

Considering that my first HDD was 240MB, I am totally floored by the fact that it takes over 13 hours to copy 637GB from my old 750GB HDD to my new 1.5TB HDD via USB2.
And that is actually pretty fast at 13.1MB/s.

 

[ZetaEpyon]

USB2 is extremely slow for large transfers like that.
If you were using two SATA drives, it wouldn't take anywhere near that long.

 

[Soundmanred]

Try 2.6TB using USB2.0 🙂
That was a long weekend!
I had a small fan running on them the whole time...

 

[CurseTheSky]

I'm sure the transfer is well under way by now, but for future reference, you may be better off removing the drives from the USB enclosure, and if possible, mounting them internally with SATA / power cables. SATA to SATA should be MUCH faster.

 

[Old Hippie]

It takes me @ 5.5-6.0 hrs to transfer 750GB via eSATA.

I've had to reload my WHS box four times. 😉

 

[coolVariable]

Yeah - I didn't think about it. Really should have done it SATA to SATA.
I even have the box open since this is a new build.
Too bad.
By the time I get home it should be done.
Hopefully also a good stress test for the seagate drive. Continuous writing for 12+ hours.

 

[taltamir]

eSATA FTW. ideally plugged DIRECTLY to the drive and NOT to an external enclosure (otherwise it goes through the enclosure controller and slows you down)

 

[quakefiend420]

i'm about to set up a NAS, i'm not looking forward to transferring about 3TB...it's gonna take ages

 

[taltamir]

do it overnight.

 

[Soundmanred]

Originally posted by: taltamir
do it overnight.

:thumbsup:

 

[Old Hippie]

(otherwise it goes through the enclosure controller and slows you down)

Maybe a pubic hair but you'll never notice. :laugh:

 

[magreen]

Sata or esata would def help. But regardless of interface it will take a long time for a drive to write that much. This should be no surprise.

Just do the math.
(600gb data * 1000 mb/gb) / (50 mb/s avg write speed) / (60 s/min) = 200 mins.

 

[Golgatha]

Took me 2.5 hours to transfer 1 TB (0.97 TB actually) of data. eSATA FTW!

Ever tried transferring data between two USB thumb drives? Now that takes some serious time! Most of the time, I will copy the data to a hard drive, and then transfer to the USB drive. However, I have been known to be lazy and just do a single copy command before going to bed.