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Speeding up Firewire File Transfers?
Milo_Mindbender asks: "I've got a pretty common problem: copying a ton of files from an old Windows XP computer to a new one. After noticing how long transfers were taking over my 100mbps Ethernet, I hooked up a IEEE1394/Firewire cable and things were much faster. Strangely though, Windows is still only using about 10% of the cable's 400mbps bandwidth. Does anyone know any tips/tricks for speeding this up or any Shareware mass-file-copy tools that would be faster than Explorer/file sharing? Right now, the older machine is setup with Windows file sharing and the new machine is copying from it, neither machine is using much CPU and the disks are nowhere near their max speed. The number and size of the files might be what's slowing it down, since it's gigabytes of files in the 100-200k size range."
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That's quite a collection of pr0n!
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Even IP Over Carrier Pigeons would yield some sort of improvement.
If you’re gonna use an operating environment that shits all over your desktop anyway, ya might as well go all out.
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Last I checked, 400mbps is equal to 0.4 bytes per second. I remember getting speeds like that back in the days of dial-up. Like back in the day when you picked up the phone and read off ones and zeros to your friend on the other line as he copied your fortran program by punching holes in his punch card. Oh yeah, and uphill both ways. In the snow.
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Robocopy is approximately a hundred trillion trillion trillion times better than xcopy.
To put that in perspective, you would need to weld fourteen quadrillion VW Beetles end to end, then use the resulting Beetle Bar as a lever and an object with the displacement of eleven million Libraries of Congress as the fulcrum in order to give xcopy the same Windows command-line file copying power as Robocopy.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
Nope, 400 mbps would be .4 bits per second, which is .05 bytes per second, or about .000071 Libraries of Congress per millenium.
I did a freelance gig back in '98 where I had to use a Mac (an 8600/300 w/64 megs of RAM). It took well over 20 minutes to copy a 17 meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another. 20 minutes! At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT4, the same operation would take about 2 minutes.
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He's copying pr0n. Is there an xxxcopy?
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