Cloning or copy paste data?

[random2234]

I need to copy roughly 1tb worth of data over to a new hard drive. It's just movies, tv shows, pictures etc. No OS or any programs on it. Is it best to just do the old copy and paste via Windows or cloning the hdd?

[Action_Johnson]

I'd just copy and paste it before I go to bed

 

[LWM723]

I'd use DSynchronize, it's more reliable and you can see a log of any errors.

[mariushm]

You could copy paste ... If I'm in a rush, I'd use teracopy or whatever allows multithreaded transfers to transfer multiple files at same time.  

 

At one point in the past, I even set up ftp server on the pc and have ftp server (filezilla ftp server can be set up in 5 minutes) and serve the original drive, and used a ftp client (filezilla ftp client is simple and fast) to "download" the files to the other drive, using up to 10 simultaneous transfers.  a bonus is you'd see in the download queue which files failed to transfer over.

 

In your case, since we're talking about big files, the transfer should be relatively fast. It gets slow when dealing with lots of small files (ex thousands of pictures)..