Transferring Data

[Katrina]

If you have a lot of data to transfer from one computer system to another, what is the best method?

 

[Cam]

I’m not sure what is the best method, but I’ve always relied on my external TB drive. It has come in handy when I’ve gotten a new computer in the past.

 

[Katrina]

The last time I got a new computer, I used both the cloud and the external hard drive. The cloud was really slow so I'm not sure I'd go that route in the future.

 

[Page]

With a new PC I would end up having a clean install of all things regards software and move things from one drive to the other bit at a time

 

[irdam]

SSD would be my first choice

 

[Page]

SSD would be my first choice

and being big enught

 

[zappaDPJ]

I've recently done exactly that, built a new PC and transferred a huge amount of data, nearly 10 TB worth which was stored on hard drives. I bought a Samsung T7 Shield Portable SSD 4 TB - USB 3.2 Gen.2 External SSD which was quite pricey but I intend to use it as an external storage device on my iMac. The 1 TB version is quite affordable and would probably do the job.

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[PGen98]

I only keep program files on the internal drive of my computer, all of the storage is on an external drive that backs up to my NAS. When I transfer I just re-download the software and plug in the external drive, once it's remapped to the right drive letter, all's good!

 

[Uncrowned Guard]

An external drive was also my go-to. I tried networking drives in Windows and the speeds were always poor. Now I have a NAS and it has a network drive just to move files around our LAN network.

 

[Felly]

When I got my new computer, I used the cloud because I thought it'd be faster and easier, but that was definitely not the case. Definitely will not be using that route going forward, and I'll just use the external drive I have to transfer what I need over.

 

[Katrina]

When I got my new computer, I used the cloud because I thought it'd be faster and easier, but that was definitely not the case. Definitely will not be using that route going forward, and I'll just use the external drive I have to transfer what I need over.

Ooh, sorry it took so long and that's a good warning for me to not use it either! thanks.

 

[Felly]

Ooh, sorry it took so long and that's a good warning for me to not use it either! thanks.

It's okay!! It was definitely a learning experience for sure. I don't know if it was because some things I was trying to transfer were larger (like pictures and my graphics resources) or if it was just the cloud site I used (OneDrive), but what probably should've only taken me a few hours when I had the time to do so ended up taking a few days.

 

[PGen98]

It's okay!! It was definitely a learning experience for sure. I don't know if it was because some things I was trying to transfer were larger (like pictures and my graphics resources) or if it was just the cloud site I used (OneDrive), but what probably should've only taken me a few hours when I had the time to do so ended up taking a few days.

Could've been a multitude of reasons, maybe OneDrive throttled your transfers, something like that, but yep, definitely faster making transfers in house.