OK, I know I already went on and on about this, but this just blew my mind! My boss just loaded Windows 7, and was copying his old data from an external USB drive to his new computer – 128GB worth of data. He used the /MT:128 (the maximum number of threads) and here are his results:
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 14346 615 13731 0 0 545
Files : 148533 2201 146332 0 0 1244
Bytes : 128.888 g 9.813 g 119.075 g 0 0 2.407 g
Times : 7:13:01 0:07:08 0:00:00 0:00:05
Speed : 102739780 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 5878.817 MegaBytes/min.
Ended : Tue Aug 11 11:27:34 2009
Yeah, you read that right… 5.8GB/Min, copied 128GB in 7 minutes!!!
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