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Philip
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 18:16
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Ok, slightly noobish question from me.

My new computer has just turned up. That means I'm going to have to transfer a good few gigs of data onto it from my current computer.

Last time I did this was two years ago. I used a usb router cos that was a damn fast method at the time.

I'm wondering what recommendations you clever peeps might have as to how to go about transferring the data nowadays - then I'll nip off to "where in the world? PcWorld" to buy the method in question.

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EddieB
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 18:41
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A LAN cable between the two pc's?
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IanG
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 19:20
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as eddie suggest you could use a cross over cable to do it, but this will only do it at 100 megabits/s; something that i have done before is use a usb caddy which i put my old hd inside and it transfers at usb v2 which is 48 megabytes/s, which is faster, and there was a usb caddy on ebuyer (ebuyer.com) for only about £30 iirc, which is cheaper than your "where in the world? pcworld"


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Dazzag
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 19:21
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I use USB2 drives. A nice 7200rpm external is pretty good. My one is pretty quick and makes my 5400rpm external look pretty slow. But the 5400rpm is a 2.5" model without need of an external power supply, so is pretty cute (and plugs into a media streamer on my main TV). On the other hand, as long as you don't need tonnes of space then try a USB2 key. I have a couple of 4gb ones that I made sure were some of the fastest around at the time. Totally flies copying data on those ones. My newest one is a Buffalo 4gb effort and it is pretty quick. You can get upto 16gb now apparently.

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 19:26 Edited at: 9th Sep 2006 19:26
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Urm, PC World sucks, they can rip you off with hardware.

But if I wanted to transfer data, I would use a LAN cable. You should buy all your stuff from EBuyer, because they have great deals. There is a super deal on a dual AMD 2.2GHz chip with a mother board and a free "AMD" T shirt, all for 120 odd pounds.

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BatVink
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 20:45
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I wiped my machine and started again last week. I invested £20 in an external Hard Drive case, so I'm going with the general concensus here. I also spent £55 on a 250 Gig hard drive to put in the external case, so now I have a nice backup system in place. It also has a backup button on the case, so I press it and 20 seconds later all my data is transferred to the backup.

PC World, in my opinion, is overpriced and underqualified. However, you can often find a "Web Offer" that is good value. You order on line, pick up in-store, and save a heap of dosh. For example, their £99 external USB hard drive is £75 online. Same item, same shop, different price. Is that legal, Philip?



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Kentaree
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 21:33
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Uhm, why ftp?

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indi
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Posted: 10th Sep 2006 05:01
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ftp actually can be incredibly fast even over ten base T.
Lots of little files however and it slows down.
Compressing a bundle into an archive helps transfer speeds.

A standard crossover cable is the cheapest method for transfer.
It might not hurt to invest in a hard drive either within a machine or external USB2.0 or Firewire caddy. You can get raided external hard drive caddies now with an IP address on your own LAN. nowadays.

I would back things up onto DVDs, at least they wont crash if things should go pear shaped.
It may take longer to burn and load but its probably the safest method.

Usb to usb cord as a network cable would be blistering fast as well.

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Philip
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Posted: 11th Sep 2006 02:58
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I went for the external HDD in the end. I bought it from PCWorld and, for fun, before I did so I asked one of the sales assistants what method of data transfer he'd recommend. None, it transpired. This was because (as he put it) "I just work here mate - don't know much about computers. You could ask at our our help desk".

Brilliant.

And this is my first post with my brand new PC. Its about the size of a house, but at least the new Core 2 duo systems are much, much quieter than my old P4 system.

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