Holy shit! and I was complaining when I had to move 300GB of files and backups from my old HDDs to my 1TB hard drive Good luck with that anyway :thumbsup:
What? No, not even close. A decent 7200RPM drive will max out somewhere in the order of 100MB/s, USB2's theoretical maximum is 480mbit/s, in theory being capable of transferring 60MB/s but in the real world you'll be lucky to exceed 30MB/s. Assembler: My advice to you would be to: a) install Teracopy as bearkilla suggested. It allows you to copy a chunk of stuff, then while that's copying queue up more copying. Windows would just start both transfers at once and slow to a crawl. Can also pause and resume. b) How are the drives (assuming it's 2*1.5TB disks) configured inside the enclosure? RAID0? Separate entities? If it's possible, rip the drives out of the enclosure and connect them straight up with SATA. You'll likely divide your transfer times by 5. I usually do this when initially filling an external drive. Copying 50GB to and fro every now and then is much more bearable over USB2 than 1-2TB. May void your warranty so read up. c) Next time consider buying a USB3 SATA2 enclosure and installing your own drive(s) inside it, there is no need for SATA3 for a non-SSD. You'll likely save money going this route too. Perhaps eSATA would be an option as well.
Drives? It's one drive. WD 3 TB in a usb 2.0 enclosure. I needed to empty one of the internal drives so I can move the 3tb in. Just thought the time was quite humorous and yes, it did take 24 hours to copy.
as people frequently increase data mass and storage capacity they often forget that the transfer bus hasn't evolved as much as it should. USB 3.0 and mainly Light Peak should put a rest to all your backup worries in the following few years. My bet's on Light Peak personally although I m sure USB 3.0 has its share of friends in the legacy-intense home or office.
