Which is faster, copying everything at once or one thing at a time?
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Mar 15, 202661909 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I am transferring a bunch (20+) of large (1GB+) files to my external flash drive over USB 2.0. Is it quicker to just sling them all over at once (as in one at a time but not waiting for the previous transfer to finish) so that there are multiple transfers going on, or transfer one, wait for it to f…
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If they are all coming from different physical disks, but being written to a solid state drive (flash, SSD) then you can copy them simultaneously. The physical head movement (latency) is what will slow a transfer from a spinning platter disk. If you…
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