Software for fast file transfer?

Just wondering if there is software available to increase speed of file transfer?

There should be a program that removes/lowers all the power to gpu etc and ploughs all the system performance into transferring that file.

Even if the whole system comes unresponsive during the transfer but the speed of the file transfer should be significant ?


Just wondering about this because I have always wondered and think it (if possible) would be an amazing program.

Ta

 

Not really. Turning off GPU stuff and other peripherals isn't going to make it go any faster.

To transfer a file you barely need any CPU power, and the transfer speed will be bottlenecked by either the hard drive's maximum transfer speed or the network connection's speed. No amount of software will get around that.

 

Whats with all the lols, its a serious question... Lol isn't helpful.

At least comment why.

Thanks Greg Ross.

 

Well it was answered in the first post.. You can just turn off devices and it wouldnt ever help anyway as computers dont work that way... Is it file transfer from like harddisk to harddisk you're talking about, or over the internet?

 

just harddisk to harddisk etc.

 

Gregs already answered your question, its not power thats the problem its the bandwidth limitation of the component parts, a HD can only transfer a file so fast shutting down parts of the laptop is not going to change this fact, things like USB1.1/2 also limit speed hence why we have USB3 and Esata, same with wireless and ethernet, hence why we now have 10/100/1000 capable lan cards or n wireless.

 

Completely limited to speed of the harddisks, so yeah.. end of that tale

 

The mechanical heads/parts in the disk itself limit how fast it can actually write data to the drive correctly, SSDs get around this problem since their are no mechnical parts but even they have limits.

 

Ahh ok, thanks for the help anyway guys. Lesson learn't!

Ta, Tom.

 

Yeah, I've gotten file transfers to work between two computers with speeds of upwards of 60MB/s or more but...

I had a GigE connection between them (~100MB/s) and two SSDs (each capable of 180MB/s or so) and the files were quite large (which SSDs and HDDs both like).

Standard hard drives should be able to hit 60MB/s easily if the file is close to the center of the drive (transfer rates slow down a lot when the data is physically located near the edge of the drive platter). So unless you have a crap hard drive that might not be the bottleneck.

A standard 100Mbit network connection tops out at 10MB/s. Wireless 802.11g tops out at 5.4M B/s, and wireless 802.11n gets up to 45M B/s. So yeah, you've got to have the right networking equipment to hit fast transfer rates.

You guys are lucky that I'm not hitting the "infraction" button .

 

Wait I thought that data is read faster on the outer edge of a hard disk rather than the inside; what have I been taught all these years?

 

In Windows, there's a program called teracopy which dynamically cache files to make copying smaller files much much faster.

Also, make sure NCQ option is turned on.

 

Yes use Teracopy to replace the windows copy handler. Great for moving files in mass.

Apparently its faster than the windows one but i never really noticed it. Check the website for more info.

 

There's no difference in speed when copying large files, but the improvement is huge when copying small files. E.g. copying a folder of pictures will be much faster with teracopy.

 

teracopy no longer provides the speed boost it once did. it is a great copy batch scheduler, but considering the internal improvements in Win7 teracopy isn't worth even the trouble it takes to download it.

The writer of teracopy seems to have abandoned the software in favor of android applications. If teracopy was worth the trouble and sales/support, you know the writer would be there for the money. he isn't.