[SOLVED] I am transferring 105,000 jpg's (about 120 gb) from point A to point B on the hard drive. Taking almost 24 hours. 32gb RAM, pretty decent (as of 16 mo

[dpulte]

I am transferring 105,000 jpg's (about 120 gb) from point A to point B on the hard drive. Taking almost 24 hours. 32gb RAM, pretty decent (as of 16 months ago) 7 series processor. Thoughts? Suggestions?

 

[Eximo]

Windows and small files don't get along, so basically you want a tool that will just grab the bits and move them. Plenty out there.

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Defragmenting the drive prior to this may also help.

 

[popatim]

How are you moving them makes a difference.

If being done on the same drive then:
Copy & paste will take a long time as the drive will need to read & write the actual data.
Cut & paste is much much quicker; the drive just needs to rewrite the table of contents to say these files are now in this folder.

As always, make sure you have a valid backup esp before doing things with your data.
For example; I would never use Cut & Paste to move files from one drive to another, if the paste fails and your file buffer corrupts during the transfer, all those files will need to be recovered. Copy & paste, verify the files after the transfer, then delete source when all is good.

 

[USAFRet]

I am transferring 105,000 jpg's (about 120 gb) from point A to point B on the hard drive. Taking almost 24 hours. 32gb RAM, pretty decent (as of 16 months ago) 7 series processor. Thoughts? Suggestions?

Thoughts?

1. Let it run
2. Later, ditch the spinning drive and replace with SSD.