Free, fast copy programs? "FastCopy" is mega slow.

[Bender Blues]

Need to keep a folder up to date maybe every month or so.

I usually copy said newer folder, paste it, delete the old.

 

This folder is roughly 100gb in size. Windows (10) takes roughly 3 hours to complete. So I thought I'd go find something.... all the talk about "FastCopy", installed and...

Its horrible. Same 100gb folder would take 6 hours and 20 minutes with FastCopy. wtf?!

 

Used windows Robocopy - its twice as slow as copy/pasting.

WizFile is an awesome (magical) search program. Somehow, its search is just as fast as pressing the enter key. That fast. Building the database when first opening, its a flash of time.

Wish they made something for copy/pasting 

 

Any ideas?!

[Kilrah]

FreeFileSync, it'll only update what needs updating instead of deleting and copying everything back again.

[DrMacintosh]

The real question is how fast is the storage media that you're copying from and copying to? If the folder is only 100GB or so and you delete the old one, you only theoretically need 200GB of storage. A cheap 500GB SSD would give you plenty of headroom. A fast NVMe 1TB drive can be had for a little over $100 USD. You also have to consider the transfer protocol, are the drives connected internally via SATA/PCIe or USB?

[AbydosOne]

45 minutes ago, Bender Blues said:

Any ideas?!

Teracopy? Though in all likelihood, you're limited by filesystem and drive performance overhead.

[Bender Blues]

30 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

The real question is how fast is the storage media that you're copying from and copying to? If the folder is only 100GB or so and you delete the old one, you only theoretically need 200GB of storage. A cheap 500GB SSD would give you plenty of headroom. A fast NVMe 1TB drive can be had for a little over $100 USD. You also have to consider the transfer protocol, are the drives connected internally via SATA/PCIe or USB?

Right. Yes, its a 2tb USB drive on 3.0

The speed of the drive not really an important - if its slow or fast, in will be slow or fast with various copy programs.

 

So all things equal, I'm just looking for a program thats faster then explorer. And so far, they are slower.

[Bender Blues]

1 minute ago, AbydosOne said:

Teracopy? Though in all likelihood, you're limited by filesystem and drive performance overhead.

I'll give that a try. Although, everything I've read - all things equal, Tera is a bit slower than FastCopy.

[Oliviana]

If you're looking for a faster way to copy large folders, you might want to consider using a file sync tools such as Gs Richcopy360 or Syncback. These tools are designed to compare the contents of two folders and copy only the changes, which can save a lot of time compared to copying the entire folder each time. Both tools are available and can be downloaded from their respective websites.

[xAcid9]

Robocopy is awesome. I always use the mirror + multi-thread option for my backups. 
I wish I can use Robocopy in Linux, I prefer Robocopy over Rsync.