Best way to transfer 3GB or More...

Trying to transfer files from machine to machine, which one to use for some 4GB file transfers? Taking into account anything more than the double sided USB will require me buying it...

* USB 1.1 – 15 Mbps
* FireWire (1394a) – 400 Mbps
* USB 2.0 – 480 Mbps
* FireWire 800 (1394b) – 800 Mpbs
* SATA 1.5 – 1.5 Gbps
* SATA 3.0 – 3.0 Gbps

I've tried my 6GB music player through USB, but it's tedious and corrupts some files.... and the player...

 

get a 8gb flash drive at BB for just 20
i got it last weekend and its pretty good

 

good idea, I'm actually liking the prices on these Flash Drives, they used to be a joke.

Anyone know where to buy a lot of cheap high capacity blank DVD's? perhaps china (eBay)?

 

Burning DVDs is really slow, and IMO a bad way to transfer data between computers. Generally for computer to computer transfers, I just go over the network. If that's not an option, or if you need something faster, external hard drives are the way to go.
Most flash drives still have pretty low write speeds, so I am not really sure if I would want to move a 3GB file on a flash drive unless I had to. Even a network transfer will probably... no, definitely... take less time than that.

 

Use a sync software to transfer large data. Just copying and past might not copy all of the data and some might go corrupt. E.g. toucan portable (free from portable apps), synctoy from microsoft..etc

You might also want to look at network solutions.
E.g. Microsoft Live Mesh, Microsoft Live Sync

And wow... 8GB for $20.. that's so expensive. I've seen 8GB corsiar ones for $10 from NCIX. I have a 32GB flashdrive for $20.

 

.... I forgot all about transferring over the network...

/thread !

 

Just a note,
if you use a flash drive, you need to format it as NTFS in order to copy files larger than 4GB
I know when I formatted my Corsair flash voyager to NTFS, it was considerably slower than when it was formatted in FAT32

K-TRON

 

Or you can use winrar or 7zip to break up the file.

 

Machine to machine, ethernet LAN will be the most reliable and fastest (if GigE)

 

If you have infiniband QDR 12x or 100GBe connection between your computers, then that would be faster and more reliable. 4Gigs of data will take 1/4 of a second to transfer.

 

teracopy or something like that will speed up transfers and run a checksum on the target copies.

Or, as we used to say at the UIUC computer center;

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a grad student, a rusty Saturn station wagon, and a few boxes full of magnetic tapes...."

 

Except that the read / write performance of the HDDs is much slower. 50MB/s = 3GB/minute.

John

 

We can always cache our read/write into ram so there's enough bandwidth to saturate the infiniband and 100gbe.

 

That still doesn't complete the transfer. The file is usable after it's on the HDD.

 

That's the case if you don't enable cache. If you have cache enabled, you can access and use the file before it gets written on the HDD.

 

and it's still not save. that's why no hdd should have a write cache. because you want to be sure to have it saved there.

but yes, you could use it before it's save there.

 

No, that's why no computer should be without a UPS!

 

Great thing about notebooks, it comes standard with a UPS