During a copy a small and simple window will appear with basic details, double clicking will give you the full window with a wealth of stats and past / present operations. If you want to jump straight to the results table and a summary of the findings about who performed best and worst, they can be found on page 2.Ĭopy Handler is a tool that while it sits in your system tray, can take over the file copying operations from Windows or monitor the clipboard for files. Each test was run twice and an average of the times was taken. All the 3rd party software was run using their default transfer settings on a clean and fully updated install of Windows 7 64-bit. The source drive was a 10,000 RPM WD Raptor and the destination was a standard 7200 RPM SATA drive, both defragged. Test 3: Copy over a 10/100 LAN network to the same destination as tests 1 and 2.Ĥ50MB totaling 5665 files / 723 folders with sizes of a few bytes to 320MB. Test 2: Copy 2 large files using the same source and destination as test 1.Ģx Windows 8 ISO’s (x86 and 圆4) totaling 5.8GB. Test 1: Copy a number of small to medium files from one HDD to another.ĤGB totaling 24,185 files / 6193 folders with sizes of a few bytes to 320MB.

To try and cover some common file copy operations, 3 tests were conducted A few simple tests were carried out to try and determine which file copying tools are the fastest at performing file transfers in a few different real world scenarios. We were curious to find out just how fast some of these programs actually are when copying and moving files around in Windows, so have gathered together 15 freeware tools to have a closer look. Not only can this help the speed of transfers, but you can also get other benefits like better information, queuing copies, pausing, skipping, and dealing with problematic files far better than what Windows does. With this in mind, it is entirely possible to shorten the duration of any copying or moving of files if you use a piece of third party software to take over operations instead of relying on the Windows built-in function. Another factor is how Windows itself deals with these operations, and all versions of Windows have never been quite as efficient at it as they could be.

Obviously the single biggest factor affecting the speed of any transfer is what medium you’re copying from or to such as hard drives, SSD’s, USB sticks, network etc. Most of us know that it is possible to perform folder and file copy or move operations in Windows by either using your mouse to copy and paste, drag and drop or by using a number of keyboard shortcuts.

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