I have been using (well regarded) Teracopy for a couple of years, but after a recent HDD/SSD upgrade I discovered Teracopy is very slow on big file transfers on fast HDD/SSD.
So decided to test a bunch of file copy software.
Test #1: Big file copy (5.3 GB Video file)
Windows 7 Copy: 30 s
Fast Copy: 30 s
Nice Copy: 40 s
ExtremeCopy: 30 s
Ultracopier: 30 s
Teracopy: 70 s
I downloaded a new version of Teracopy (no difference) I tried difference settings (system cache made it worse). Teracopy just can't keep up with fast drives. It seems to max out around 95 MB/s, while other copiers were delivering near 200 MB/s on my dirves. Deleted from system. I dropped anything slower than Windows Copy for the next test:
Test #2 Game Directory (13 GB ~2500 files)
Windows 7 Copy: 1:45
ExtremeCopy: 1:32
FastCopy: 1:30
Ultracopier: 1:26 *
After the Ultracopier test, I tried to duplicate the tests, but they failed because Ultracopier had locked about a hundred files and made them inaccessible. I tried to uninstall Ultracopier and that failed as well. I manually killed it's service, and manually deleted it's parts, then rebooted. I suggest avoiding this one, but YMMV.
In the end I chose to keep Fastcopy on my system for copying big directories. Faster than windows with many options. But the interface does leave a lot to be desired.
Any others worth testing?
So decided to test a bunch of file copy software.
Test #1: Big file copy (5.3 GB Video file)
Windows 7 Copy: 30 s
Fast Copy: 30 s
Nice Copy: 40 s
ExtremeCopy: 30 s
Ultracopier: 30 s
Teracopy: 70 s
I downloaded a new version of Teracopy (no difference) I tried difference settings (system cache made it worse). Teracopy just can't keep up with fast drives. It seems to max out around 95 MB/s, while other copiers were delivering near 200 MB/s on my dirves. Deleted from system. I dropped anything slower than Windows Copy for the next test:
Test #2 Game Directory (13 GB ~2500 files)
Windows 7 Copy: 1:45
ExtremeCopy: 1:32
FastCopy: 1:30
Ultracopier: 1:26 *
After the Ultracopier test, I tried to duplicate the tests, but they failed because Ultracopier had locked about a hundred files and made them inaccessible. I tried to uninstall Ultracopier and that failed as well. I manually killed it's service, and manually deleted it's parts, then rebooted. I suggest avoiding this one, but YMMV.
In the end I chose to keep Fastcopy on my system for copying big directories. Faster than windows with many options. But the interface does leave a lot to be desired.
Any others worth testing?