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I have some security video on four 1TB USB 2 external drives I added the files to the drives a few files at a time over a year or two. I wanted to move all the
by dghughes 9y ago
I have some security video on four 1TB USB 2 external drives I added the files to the drives a few files at a time over a year or two. I wanted to move all the files all onto a single large drive but I just gave up due to the drives spinning for so long (days!) and its power is over the USB cable not external brick.
I guess that's the point of the article the data we humans can now create is so enormous it's impossible to move it other than in bulk physically.
- dsp1234 9y agoTake the external drives out of the USB 2 enclosure (max speed 35MB/s) and move them into a USB 3 enclosure (max speed 400MB/s). You can also directly attach the drives to a PC via an IDE or SATA interface. The USB 3, IDE or SATA interfaces are going to allow you to run the drive at whatever the drive's speed is, rather than be limited by the transfer speed of the interface.
- dghughes 9y agoA good idea but these are 12 year old Iomega portable external drives I'm sure I could try that but they may not survive the operation.
- brianwawok 9y agoOlder spinning rust may not be much faster than 35 MB a sec sustained
- Piskvorrr 9y agoNah. It is possible still, but it's far cheaper this way (in person/time and S3 bandwidth costs).