I'm having this problem with any Windows computer I use. The old work computer is an i5 with 8 gig of RAM, the new laptop is less than a year old with an SSD and 8 gig of RAM. My desktop is in i7 8700 with 16 gig of RAM and it's the same with all of them.
We have a folder of "workshop manuals" at work, 460 gig worth and many sub-folders for different makes and models. I'm trying to make backup copies on several 1TB drives but it takes very long. On the old workshop computer copying from the internal D: drive it took two days.
On my 'new' desktop I have copied it from an old USB2 drive onto my internal drive which took about 6 hours the first time. Since then it takes really long to copy to an external drive.
The new drives I bought are USB3 drives - the first issue I had is that it told me I needed more space to copy 460gig to a 1TB drive and i saw they were ExFat and changed them to NTFS.
Someone who works with computers suggested that FreeFileSync was the best way to copy the files over and I have installed it.
I start it copying and it tells me I have 1 hour and 15 minutes left for the 7.2 million files. Over time it gets really slow. After a few hours now it is sitting at 1.5 kb/s and 1350 days left.
It seems to be mostly related to the "cars" folder where we have the most files. If I copy the other folder over "Trucks", "Earthmoving" etc. with less files they can drag and drop in a few minutes. The "cars" folder with all the sub folders really slow things down and when I cancel the transfer and use FreeFileSync it looks promising to begin with but then gets really slow again.
To give an idea of a "basic" delete I just told it to delete the folder with all its files from one internal hard drive. It took windows 10 half an hour to add up all the files
and tell me it's too big to move to the recycle bin and then one and a half hours to permanently delete it.
Am I stuck with the slow copy times or is there a better way?
We have a folder of "workshop manuals" at work, 460 gig worth and many sub-folders for different makes and models. I'm trying to make backup copies on several 1TB drives but it takes very long. On the old workshop computer copying from the internal D: drive it took two days.
On my 'new' desktop I have copied it from an old USB2 drive onto my internal drive which took about 6 hours the first time. Since then it takes really long to copy to an external drive.
The new drives I bought are USB3 drives - the first issue I had is that it told me I needed more space to copy 460gig to a 1TB drive and i saw they were ExFat and changed them to NTFS.
Someone who works with computers suggested that FreeFileSync was the best way to copy the files over and I have installed it.
I start it copying and it tells me I have 1 hour and 15 minutes left for the 7.2 million files. Over time it gets really slow. After a few hours now it is sitting at 1.5 kb/s and 1350 days left.
It seems to be mostly related to the "cars" folder where we have the most files. If I copy the other folder over "Trucks", "Earthmoving" etc. with less files they can drag and drop in a few minutes. The "cars" folder with all the sub folders really slow things down and when I cancel the transfer and use FreeFileSync it looks promising to begin with but then gets really slow again.
To give an idea of a "basic" delete I just told it to delete the folder with all its files from one internal hard drive. It took windows 10 half an hour to add up all the files
and tell me it's too big to move to the recycle bin and then one and a half hours to permanently delete it.
Am I stuck with the slow copy times or is there a better way?
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