micky
2023-12-26 13:22:34 UTC
Finally got around to backing up 2 years of photos, mostly unimportant,
from the phone to the laptop.
Took 75 minutes.
Then from the laptop to the mini-external drive.
Took under 3 minutes
About 440 images or videos copied. A couple videos > 1 gig each.
10 gigs
3800 MB/minute (from the PC to the external drive, that is. A
good speed for usb3?)
I guess I'm posting because it suprises me how much faster it is from
the laptop to the external drive, compared to from the phone.
Wait. I could have done it right but I had the phone plugged into the
desktop while I was backing up the photos to the laptop, on the same
local network. That was stupid. Did it slow things down? Likely to
cause errors? Or have they got the error-elimination working realllly
well now? (Stupid me, I only noticed this because when I unplugged
the phone, a message popped up on the desktop PC!)
My phone is a Xiaomi, 2 or 3 years old. Not that I'm in a rush -- I'm
not -- but have copy times gotten faster since my phone was made? More
comparable to PC's? I used MyPhoneExplorer, but I think that just
formats the copy and then the copy is done the same as most other
methods would do it, right?
Do they rate phone ports as USB2 and USB3? If not that, what? Or do
they not rate them at all?
(AOMEI backing up the whole 170gig partition with slight compression to
the same external drive only took about 35 minutes.)
from the phone to the laptop.
Took 75 minutes.
Then from the laptop to the mini-external drive.
Took under 3 minutes
About 440 images or videos copied. A couple videos > 1 gig each.
10 gigs
3800 MB/minute (from the PC to the external drive, that is. A
good speed for usb3?)
I guess I'm posting because it suprises me how much faster it is from
the laptop to the external drive, compared to from the phone.
Wait. I could have done it right but I had the phone plugged into the
desktop while I was backing up the photos to the laptop, on the same
local network. That was stupid. Did it slow things down? Likely to
cause errors? Or have they got the error-elimination working realllly
well now? (Stupid me, I only noticed this because when I unplugged
the phone, a message popped up on the desktop PC!)
My phone is a Xiaomi, 2 or 3 years old. Not that I'm in a rush -- I'm
not -- but have copy times gotten faster since my phone was made? More
comparable to PC's? I used MyPhoneExplorer, but I think that just
formats the copy and then the copy is done the same as most other
methods would do it, right?
Do they rate phone ports as USB2 and USB3? If not that, what? Or do
they not rate them at all?
(AOMEI backing up the whole 170gig partition with slight compression to
the same external drive only took about 35 minutes.)