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Ugh, transferring nearly 2TB of data from one drive to another is tedious.

Posted by sycor Mar 7 '24, 06:34

Stupid clone software wouldn't work due to allocated unit size differences. So haven't copy in batches so the system doesn't spaz out.

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You eat an elephant one byte at a time. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Mar 7, 08:14
*pictures Sycor moving bytes from one pile to another* That’s a lot of bytes. -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 7, 07:24 1
- That's pretty accurate. -- nm - sycor Mar 7, 07:42
robocopy is your friend -- nm - oblique Mar 7, 07:12 3
- Not familiar with that. I'll give it a google. -- nm - sycor Mar 7, 07:15
- *long drag on the cigarette to find the right flags to use* -- nm - budice Mar 7, 07:13 1
  - xcopy /a /s /r -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 7, 07:27
Use NVMe sticks to transfer onto. Mucho faster -- nm - budice Mar 7, 06:46 3
- punch cards. much more efficient -- nm - decline Mar 7, 07:09 1
  - Scantron right here -- nm - budice Mar 7, 07:09
- It's an older PC I use for my plex server. Upgrading the drive to a larger one. No NVMe. -- nm - sycor Mar 7, 06:49
maybe you should jiggle the cables occasionally. - tRuMaN Mar 7, 06:38 1
- But only twice. Otherwise, I'd be playing with it. -- nm - sycor Mar 7, 06:45

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