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wafmoo
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Need to transfer a folder from my laptop hard drive to an NAS drive. The folder contains over 14000 files, totalling over 140gb.
If i connect laptop to router via ethernet rather than wirelessly, how long should the transfer take?
If i connect laptop to router via ethernet rather than wirelessly, how long should the transfer take?
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About an hour at 300 Mbps, which is a reasonable throughput on Gigabit ethernet.
If it's Fast ethernet then about 5 hours.
That's assuming you really mean 140 gigabyte folder size.604!0 -
Yes, I did mean 140 gigabytes.0
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It will probably take longer because of the number of files. i.e. it takes longer to copy 14000 files totalling 140Gb than one 140Gb file. It's definitely the way forward though. A friend asked me to transfer their 80Gb iTunes library to their NAS over Wireless N it was going to take 8 hours. Plugged straight in to the router took 25 minutes.
You'll never get 300mb though, it will sit more around 80-100 taking into account disk access.0 -
Teracopy will help speed things up with large numbers of files (asuming Windows).0
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