move 100GB between PC's
 

Hi,

What is the best way to move 100GB of data between computers.
I am using Vista Ultimate 64bit and the machine I need the data on is XP Home 32bit.

I did think about setting up an ftp server and doing that way.
Both have access to the net.

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just network them and copy it over in sections . Ive done it before dont expect it to be fast but it will do it wired would be better

Are they in the same house?

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If in the same house I'd personally whip the HDD out of one and put in the other one, will save a lot of time later on..

Otherwise a cross-over cable directly between the two will get a better speed than going through a hub.

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You could also FTP the files
http://filezilla-project.org/

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Yes the PC is in the same room and both connected via the router. I don't really want to take the HDD out of one PC and put in the other.
I think I will just setup a Filezilla FTP server on the XP and upload from the Vista PC, I can leave it over night if needed.

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I'd forget about FTP and just share the drives in windows..

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yeah I second that just copy and paste had to do that kinda amount of data loads of times

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USB2 or esata would be faster than over 100mb network if you have an external drive.

If you're going down the network route I think it's faster if you pull the files from destination pc, rather than push from source pc. Also, I think I read that its also faster if you actually map a drive to the source directory rather than going to "My Network Places|Entire Network|PC|directory" route.

HTH

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If you wanted to be really geeky you could use something like netcat to pass the data between the two machines - that would just be over complicating things for the sake of buggering around with a geeky command line application though :D

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dont talk wet how can having to copying files to an external drive then having to copying them to the next machine be quicker somehow I do not think so

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As a thought.....depending on the type of data it might be worth compressing it before you do the transfer, that way you're transferring less data.....

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but compression takes ages also. Best bet is to just chuck it across the network

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Depends on the network, 10-100-1000...

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Possible 10MB/s across the 100Mb/s network vs. Sata2 speeds of around 70-100MB/s.

I'd pick HDD-HDD vs network.

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I should have took the esata out bold lol I thought it firewire lol

It was I talking wet

go out and buy yourself a nice expensive esata enclosure a hard drive and adapters for the PC to copy the data :) ;)