How to speed up copying a large number of small files?

Question

Hard disks

How to speed up copying a large number of small files?
Are there any adequate solutions in 2020?
At the moment I'm trying to compress into an archive without compression, but this is also a long time.
HDD disk.

Answer 1

You can't really speed it up, unfortunately. The bottleneck in this case is small random reads, with which HDDs are not particularly friendly.
You can try Total Commander with its optimizations, or special programs like KillCopy that try to copy to multiple threads. Unless of course you trust the reliability of these programs.
And I would also advise you to calculate the checksums and verify them later. To not be excruciatingly painful, so to speak.

Answer 2

Only block copies of the entire disk to a faster drive, of course, a faster drive must be at least the same size

Answer 3

through the archive, more correctly
, several independent ones are better

Answer 4

Rsync to multiple threads is faster