Transferring data from PC to Mac?

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jazzbird2011-01-11 20:35:08

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jazzbird, 2011-01-11 20:35:08

The situation is this - there is a PC, there is an iMac, there is an ASUS wifi router. How can I transfer a large amount of data (about a couple of hundred gigabytes) from a PC to a Mac?

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iTatoo, 2011-01-12
@jazzbird

If possible, then pull out the hard drive from the PC and connect it to the poppy via the usb- sata (ide) adapter, this option will allow you to rewrite it once ... and faster ... ->RS… set up sharing and copy, I advise you to use something like SuperCopier for PC, it will save a lot of nerves and time at the slightest failure…
Copying via Wi-Fi is the penultimate option (copy speed is several times less than on a direct wire), and the extreme option is external- hard (copy 2 times) ... Although it is debatable that Wi-Fi or external hard is slower ... which PC?
And if on the merits of your question, then connect both to a Wi-Fi network, share on a poppy and copy from a PC via SuperCopier.

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divernix, 2011-01-13
@divernix

If the PC is running Linux, connect the Mac via FireWire and boot it in Target Disk Mode. The Mac is mounted by the system as a regular external drive (under Windows it won’t work that easily - by default, it can neither read nor write to HFS + partitions, you need third-party utilities, which are not always free).

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Kukalyakin, 2011-01-11
@Kukalyakin

Optimal - external hard, via WiFi 200 gigabytes will be copied for a week.

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Alexander, 2011-01-11
@akalend

1) external hard - the simplest solution
2) the poppy has a network input - take a network wire, a point-to-point connection (without a router) will be faster. (for a router you will need two of them)
share a folder on Windows or a poppy - in the settings there is an icon "Sharing"
3) as an option, you can configure FTP
4) as an option, you can raise samba.
With my Seventh Windows, “Sharing” did not connect, but with XP it was all chiki-chiki.

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root_sashok, 2011-01-12
@root_sashok

WiFi ideally gives 54 / 8 ~ 7 MB / s, an external drive gives more. I transferred 90 GB via USB 1.1 to 2.0 to an external drive, it took about an hour.

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SkyKos, 2011-01-12
@SkyKos

The fastest option is via Ethernet.
The write speed to an external USB drive will be about 20-30 MB / s (I used external WD hard drives and got about the same result). In the case of a network cable, the speed will be slightly higher (there will be 2 bottlenecks here - the connection speed and the read / write speed to the hard drive - which will determine the recording time.). Even in the case of 100Mb Ethernet, the speed will be higher than via Wi-Fi.