[SOLVED] Best way to copy large (10TB) Hard Drive?

[HWright001]

Hello! I'm looking to replace two full 10TB Hard Drives with quieter drives for use in my home office storage bay. What is the best way to go about doing this? I know there are many software solutions to "clone" hard drives but I am concerned that such software might overheat the drives due to the copy taking (I'm assuming) a very long time. My plan is to just format the new drive in Windows and slowly copy->paste everything to the new drive then wipe the older one when finished. (At least that way I could do the "move" in small batches and let the drives cooldown for a bit before moving more.) Is this wise or are there better ways to go about moving/copying such a large amount of data?

Thanks!

 

[Lutfij]

What you've planned out seems to be a more methodical approach. Most people wouldn't think about the drive heating up during data transfers. If your enclosure has proper airflow, you could get away with copy/pasta'ing en-masse but it's a good idea to know that your data is on the drive you intended it to be on before you wipe it's former residence. I had to do the same thing when moving footage I'd downloaded from a GoPro 9, when time came to give my little brother the files, with his tiny little 64GB pen drive, I made sure to copy in batches.