"My Windows 10 is slow to clone my HDD/SSD. It seems that it cloning process is taking forever. I want to clone a 256GB hard disk to my external hard drive. The copying speed starts fast, then drops down without any reason. ![]() I started the cloning process yesterday 24 hours ago, and it's only 18%. Is this going too slow, and what should I do?" Analysis - How Long Does It Take to Clone a Hard DriveĮstablish how much data is on the hard drive to be cloned. This is the single most critical factor in estimating the time to clone a hard drive. It is also crucial to determine the method that will be used to clone the drive. So we must know that when reviewing drive transfer rates, keep in mind that the rates quoted are "burst" rates, and not sustained transfer rates.Ī Seagate drive might claim that it can transfer data at 100MBps (megabytes per second), but it will not be able to move a gigabyte's worth of data at this speed in the real world. This reality holds for the newer high-speed SATA drives, which claim to be able to transfer 300MBps (Megabytes per second), but the actual transfer rates that should be used to calculate a cloning process should be lowered to roughly one half of that speed. So if your cloning speed is 100MB/s, it takes about 17 minutes to clone a 100GB hard drive. 6 Reasons - Why Does Cloning Process Take So Long If your cloning process takes 87 minutes to clone 500GB data, it is the average speed. Why does the cloning process take forever? What are the main causes? After our analysis, we have listed the top 6 reasons below.ġ. It would take a long time to clone a large amount of data. That is to say, the larger the size of the data, the longer time it would take.Ģ. ![]() The USB connection is too slow to read and write. The USB cable can also affect the transfer speed.ģ. The original disk is old and has bad sectors. If there are bad sectors on your hard drive, the cloning process would also be affected.Ĥ. The old setup can slow down any operation.ĥ.
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