Introduction Hard drives are becoming larger with each advance made in the hardware industry. With the increase in storage size available the amount of files the average user keeps on their computer has also greatly expanded. But when you want to backup those files safely to either another partition or an external hard drive you need a copy utility that will not run into problems. I used my own music collection at 21.7GB and used several free copy utility programs to see which of them was the fastest, most reliable and easy to use. Rated Products. Transfer speeds Resource usage Other File Copiers Besides the recommended file copy utilities, I'd also mention and since both are stable and reliable.
Both are faster than the built-in Windows copier. They run from the system tray and are light on resources.
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KillCopy is quite a bit faster on transfers and has a plethora of options for the advanced user. It gets a hard time for its looks but it has many skins available on its webpage if you do decide to go that route. None that make it as attractive as UltraCopier, in my opinion, but it does help. Related Products and Links You might want to check out these articles too: • • • • • Editor This software review is in need of an editor. Please help edit and improve this article. Please rate this article. Someone wrote today suggesting a program that is the 'bees knees' for copying.
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I came to comment on his poo hoo'ing of XP, and to tell him he is lucky he does not have only one PC that is stuck in a timeless loop failing to update W10 (like my W10 PC is doing). However I digress. The program he mentioned did look pretty fantastic, BUT is commercial.
Thus explaining why his post never made it on to this page. I searched for a free program that has most of the same features.
I believe I have found that best free equivalent. That program is TeraCopy which is one of the ones reviewed by the editor of this page. It is the lowest rated above, presumably because of slower speed. I firmly believe we all should be more worried about reliability, rather than speed. Rob PS There is also a free program called 'Direct Folders', which looks to be worth checking out. • or to post comments. This thread might be a little old for this question, but has anybody had trouble with FastCopy dropping files?
I tried several times to copy a directory from one drive to a backup drive across my network. File counts match in the log match the source directory, but when I check the destination, a handful of files are missing. No errors in the log file, and the files were not in use when FastCopy was running. Tried several times, with option Copy Overwrite selected each time, but the same files seem to come up missing. FastCopy says it copied all 277, but in reality it only got 269. • or to post comments. After a short test between Ultracopier and Teracopy, I have to admit that Ultracopier is faster.
Even though if it is faster, I still hate the delay it has when it starts to copy something. Be it a lot of small files or large files, when I compared the two, Ultracopier was much faster, with both of them have activated the checksum test. Actually, Ultracopier does not seem to get much if any at all slower when the checksum test is activated. It does make me feel a bit uneasy that is passes it so fast, but then again, I doubt they would add such an option without it being working right. Even though Ultracopier in speed is better, I still abhor how when I try to copy/move any kind of files, even if it is a shortcut or a textfile less than a kb, I have to wait for a couple of seconds before Ultracopier will decide to work. If I rush it and start moving a lot of small files around at the same time, the app goes in a 'not responding' state, and I have to wait a bit more. Most of my everyday move/copy actions are of smaller files and I definitely prefer to wait longer when I transfer really large files, rather than have to wait for the copy program to every time start the copy.
If anything I prefer to have teracopy to replace my windows default copier and use another copier for special cases of really huge transfers. The reason I post this is because Ultracopier gets 5 stars and absolutely no negatives. As a sidenote, I am using an SSD, so it is not my HDD taking it's time. • or to post comments. Like with another post 2 years back, I think you should state if each utility Verifies the destination matches the source bit-by-bit 100%! The only reason I look for a Copy Utility, is I am not happy with the Copy cmd in Windows, as it does not report copy errors when copying bulk data/drives. Therefore a primary feature I seek is Verification.