TeraCopy Alternative

[hardy]

I have been using TeraCopy 2b4, is there anything else as good or better?

[lordsmurf]

Never heard of anything like this before now. How is it working for you? Does it really go faster?

[hardy]

Yes, the transfer speed usually gets over 20 MB/s, without harming the file.

[lordsmurf]

Do you copy across an internal network, by chance?

My biggest issue is copying from the SATA or IDE drives to external USB2 archive drives, which can take hours to copy over the files (3-4 hours for 150GB). Also, copying from one internal drive on systems B-F, to the external USB2 on system A. Takes forever.

Would this assist me in any way?

I know I could try myself, but may as well ask for your experience first.

[RabidDog]

I use teracopy to copy to usb drives, and to copy from sata's and esata's. I would say it gives maybe a slight improvement over windows(20- 25% possibly) . You can set a nice 20mb buffer size and it does show a mb/s speed achieved. I, being a cheapskate, only use the free version,(there is a pro version) but it is a lot more flexible and user friendly than windows copy.
It allows a lot more control and transparency over the copying/moving process, Def worth a try.

Yeah USb 2.0 is too slow now, and too Cpu intensive. ESATA all the way!

[TBoneit]

http://www.prevx.com/filenames/1019314855198359498-X1/TERACOPY2B4%5Bn%5D.EXE.html

[hardy]

Before recently I have been ripping movies to my internal hard drive first, and then transferring them with TeraCopy to my external hard drive. It's safe and secure. I was just wondering if there was something better out there that I haven't discovered yet.

[hardy]

FastCopy - It seems good.

http://www.ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en

[ocgw]

Yes, the transfer speed usually gets over 20 MB/s, without harming the file.

What are your transfer rates over usb like w/o teracopy?

I get 18mb/s already (AMD SB750 southbridge\Kingston usb flash memory reader\Kingston 8GB 133x CF card)



ocgw

peace

[tito_spina]

Try with Killcopy:

http://killprog.narod.ru/killcopye.html

[hardy]

It's a lot slower without TeraCopy. It's an older computer and the main copy/paste feature is slow.

[ocgw]

It's a lot slower without TeraCopy. It's an older computer and the main copy/paste feature is slow.

I just retested w/ my old 120GB Maxtor HDD in a Vantec Nexstar 3.5" usb enclosure I use for OS backup w/ and w/o killcopy, it made no difference on my system, I think I will try Teracopy just to see



ocgw

peace

[HemLok]

I used TeraCopy Pro on my XP Pro 32-bit and Vista Ultimate 64-bit systems and liked it a lot. I have since moved to using Directory Opus 64-bit as my file manager replacement for Windows Explorer so I no longer make use of TeraCopy. I still consider TeraCopy to be a very nice tool, however.

[hardy]

I'm also using Windows XP 32-bit.

I came across another tool, BurstCopy.

[ocgw]

Strangely my PC transfers slower w/ Teracopy



ocgw

peace

[lordsmurf]

My system wanted to take 4 hours to copy 75GB across the network. With Windows, it only took just under 2.5 hours. TeraCopy uninstalled. It was worth a shot.

[hardy]

I just realized TeraCopy 2.0 was released June 23rd. I have been using the beta version.

I use this tool for moving movies from one hard drive to the next. The last time I tried using the systems copy/cut & paste it seemed like it took forever. Guess I could test it again.

[stiltman]

I'm trying to figure out this possibly could work

1st it must store in RAM, but that would only work for smaller files.
Storing in RAM would catch up to HDD lag pretty fast with large files, right?

I still find using firewire or esata to be the fastest to external devices....except for fiber channel, but that's not very cost effective now is it

[makntraks]

From LifeHacker... Nice roundup of File Copy utilities...

Five Best Alternative File Copiers

makntraks

[ocgw]

Windows Explorer simple drag and drop file transfer in Windows 7 thru usb to 3.5" 120GB Maxtor in Vantec Nexstar external enclosure w/ no "utilities"

SB750 Southbridge on Gigabyte "2-ounce" mobo, AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.52Ghz (heatwave oc setting), 8GB DDR2 1066 5-7-7-20

Starts off @ 90+mb/s and winds down to 35mb/s



ocgw

peace

[lordsmurf]

From LifeHacker... Nice roundup of File Copy utilities...
Five Best Alternative File Copiers
makntraks

All of them proved craptastic for me.