Robocopy faster11/2/2023 ![]() ![]() I guess the answer is "no, you can't make explorer file operations faster but you can use other options when needed", which is what I suspected but wanted to make sure there was nothing specific to my system making it uncharacteristically slow. TeraCopy was a somewhat faster than a native drag-and-drop, clocking in at 53 seconds vs. Using Robocopy on that same folder, well. I am aware that command line copying is faster, and it what I do when I need to copy a very large amount of data, but dropping to a command line to save several seconds is probably not worth it. Trying Robocopy on that same 'first' folder, (285,000 files approximately) is definitely faster than using windows explorer (for one thing, explorer seem to spend 1/2 hour 'calculating'), but using 7z to compress the folders is still a lot faster than robocopy. ![]() Zipping the files will not make the copy significantly faster since the system still has to read all the files on zipping and then write them on unziping, while adding another overhead and making a common operation less convenient. Is this the best I can expect or are there ways to speed it up? When I copy a large file in explorer, Windows reports around 200 MB/s:īut copying a large folder of many small files can be up to three orders of magnitude slower: Samsung magician reports these characteristics for my NTFS-formatted SSD:
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