Time taken to copy millions of files from one to HD to another

[Guest]

Hi there,

¿Does someone know how much time would take to copy all the files & folders on a 1.43/2.62 Tb full hard drive? It consists of approx. 4.5 million jpeg images. Thanks in advance!

 

[Guest]

¿Oh, BTW, is there an optimal way to do it? ¿Are there any HD that would have a better performance (since this is for a server application)?

 

[sturm]

2 days 14 hours 37 minutes and 22.7489 seconds give or take 2 days or so!

 

[Guest]

2 days 14 hours 37 minutes and 22.7489 seconds give or take 2 days or so!

Haha! Well, thanks sturm! But seriously, ¿can I expect the process to be finished within 2 to 3 days? Because that time frame would be fine for me.

 

[sturm]

Seriously, how is ANYONE supposed to know the answer. In the 1 hour and 40 minutes since your first post you could possibly be done.
Just start the transfer and when it finishes, it finishes.

 

[Guest]

Seriously, how is ANYONE supposed to know the answer.

I get your point, but I didn't mean EXACTLY how much time, just a rough estimate (will it take a week, a day, a couple of hours) since I've never done such a massive copying. Or at least something like "I have a 500 Gb Sata drive@7200 rpm and last time I made a backup for it, it took me a full day".

Just start the transfer and when it finishes, it finishes.

Unfortunately, it's not that easy: I'm weighting whether I should run an application I made in the HD or if it would be better to copy the data to another disk and run the application there (since I need the first drive to be free to accept I/O requests without any noticeable lag)

I know my software will take about a week to process all the data. ¿Can you at least tell me if copying 1.5 Tb normally takes less than that?

Thanks

 

[Jonmor68]

How about selecting 2GB of these files and copy them to required destination, time it, then work out how long it will take to do the lot.
You will get a much more accurate figure using your own equipment then any guess we could make.

 

[Guest]

How about selecting 2GB of these files and copy them to required destination, time it, then work out how long it will take to do the lot.
You will get a much more accurate figure using your own equipment then any guess we could make.

That seems like a sound thing to do. Thanks, Jonmor68!