Question teracopy

[cloudff7]

Tera Copy is safe and reliable for copying various files from your PC to an external hard drive (2.5" HDD + USB 3.0 case formatted in NTFS)? Files are intact and free of corruption.

[whispous]

Yes, but as with any utility software, read official documentation on how to use it first.

[cloudff7]

Teracopy is good reliable?

and speed is same windows explorer?

 

I have another question: If, after copying files from my PC to an external hard drive using TeraCopy, I delete the original files from the PC, is it possible to run a test annually with some software on the external hard drive to see if they remain intact and uncorrupted, as they were when copied from the PC to this external hard drive, or if they have been altered?

Which is better for file integrity for teracopy? SHA256, CRC, and MD5 or other?

 

 

[flibberdipper]

TeraCopy is pretty reliable. I've used it a few times to transfer the contents of my server to spare drives and back (roughly 27TB of data) and so far I've not come across anything corrupted. Depending on how you have it configured and what you're doing, it's either right on part with Windows' default behavior, slightly slower, or way slower. The only way you'll get it to be significantly slower than Windows is if you're copying to a network share from another network share on the same server. Like I could hit 200-200MB/s with Windows copying between shares on my server, but then TeraCopy would essentially ride at 53MB/s (roughly half of 110-113MB/s aka gigabit network speeds).

 

I'm also pretty sure you can configure TeraCopy to delete things after transferring but I'm not 100% sure as that's obviously not something I wanted to do. You can however run a verification pass after copying to make sure that things copied correctly.

[pestermess]

Personally, I don’t like using it since I can’t stand its UI. I also don’t see much difference in transfer speeds compared to Windows Explorer. A lot of people will mention the verify feature, which checks that every file transferred correctly, and that’s great, but I still avoid it because of the interface. To answer your question though, yes, it’s safe. Several people from the LTT crew use it daily if you pay attention to what’s on their screens on certain videos.