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What's a normal copy speed between two internal hard disks?

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Mar 15, 202624518 views

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I have a PC with two internal SATA 7,200 RPM harddisks: one is a 1 TB Western Digital, and the other is 750 GB. I'm copying data between them, but it seems to be very slow: for example, to copy 140 GB takes about 5 hours. Does this seem reasonable?

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In your comment on sblair's answer you stated that: however I believe that it is being zipped on the fly, then unzipped on the other disk. This is the most likely cause as to your low speed.

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