The Windows system image download is taking an excessive amount of time.
The Windows system image download is taking an excessive amount of time.
Hello, your backup times seem unusually long. At 500 MB per hour you'd expect a full 1 TB system to back up in about 200 hours, not 2 hours and 40 minutes. The slower speed might be due to the larger drive size or file fragmentation. Using an external USB3.0 drive is fine, but consider checking your backup software settings—some tools optimize for speed. If you're open to options, Macrium Reflect offers efficient solutions. Let me know if you need more details!
The example I referenced uses internal drives. Macrium Reflect is attempting it now, but it appears similar outcomes will occur. Initially it displayed 1GB/s, then dropped to 500MB/s with remaining time estimated at 3 hours. Task Manager shows read and write speeds fluctuating between 50MB/s and 100MB/s. By the way, I’m now testing from NVMe to NVMe, both exceeding 3000MB/s.
It's mainly limited by the hard drive type—HDDs are quite slow and could take up to an hour, while SSDs are much quicker, possibly finishing in under 20 minutes. Using USB 3 cables with around a 250GB drive works well. Macrium is a solid choice, offering practical options; I haven't tried other cloning or backup tools since Windows doesn't support them effectively. The main factor is the drive size you're backing up. (?) Connection type matters less than expected, though internal drives should generally perform better than USB to SATA.
In Macrium Reflect you could turn off compression for top performance, but if you choose that option you might hit CPU limits when processing data.
The process took about 3 hours and 34 minutes, which is typical for such upgrades.