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| Author: | lostmind [ September 28th, 2023, 17:02 ] |
| Post subject: | How fast can you clone a 4T hdd? |
I used a wavlink 2-drive usb dock to clone a 4T sata hdd (WD blue) to a 4T sata ssd (samsung EVO 870) and it took more than 6 hours to complete 75% -- then I went to bed and next morning it's done. So I estimate it took 2 hours to clone 1TB. Are there faster cloning methods, either hardware or software solution? What's the fastest time you have seen or know of? |
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| Author: | fzabkar [ September 28th, 2023, 17:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How fast can you clone a 4T hdd? |
SATA-to-SATA is fastest. |
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| Author: | lostmind [ September 28th, 2023, 19:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How fast can you clone a 4T hdd? |
I did another clone from WD blue 4T to another WD blue 4T using the same wavlink and it is much faster -- finished in about 4 hours. So I guess ssd is not faster than hdd?! The question still stands, is there a faster way to clone drives? |
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| Author: | fzabkar [ September 28th, 2023, 19:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How fast can you clone a 4T hdd? |
My answer still stands, SATA-to-SATA is fastest. |
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| Author: | mr44er [ October 24th, 2023, 8:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How fast can you clone a 4T hdd? |
Quote: So I guess ssd is not faster than hdd?! No, if it's not the cheapest sh*t. Cheap consumer SSDs have a small write cache, and the chips 'behind' are too slow to write out the cache/buffer in time. 1. It makes a difference if you copy every sector or only the filled ones. 2. You can't write faster on the target than the source disk reads and delivers. Anything near 200MB/s sequential read is max. for spinning disks. |
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