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Originally Posted by theducks
You need to use a crossover USB cable or a Network connection (a crossover network cable would need static IP's set. A lot of fussing) if you are pushing that much data. Even on a 100Mbps network, that is going to take time as the drive is probably 3 or 6Mbps, but it is a LOT faster than flash
FWIW, I still have some 'Laplink' cables, just no Parallel ports on any PC later than a P4  |
There are some really fast flash drives nowadays. I got ones that can do 100+MByte/s sustained a few years back and were faster than HDD at random 4K writes (SanDisk Extreme).
Don't use them much anymore though. I've got spare 128-500GB SSDs from when I upgrade internal SSDs to 1TB so I just use those paired with a $5 SATA to USB adapter for moving files between PCs sneakernet style. Significantly faster than HDDs particularly with small files.
