I'm in the process of reorganizing my porn collection. I've bought some new external drives with a 5 TB capacity and my goal is to move all the data from older drives that may have a 1 TB or 2 TB capacity. The 1 TB drive has the same physical size as the 5 TB drive. My goal is to eliminate those older drives and greatly reduce the overall physical size that needs to be stored discreetly.

As I go about moving all this data, the only way I know how to do this is to fire up a PC or laptop, plug in both drives via USB and do a copy and paste. With newer drives, I can sometimes see transfer rates of around 100 MB/s, but with older drives, transfer rates of 50-60 MB/s are the best I can get. This means transferring large amounts of data can be slooooooow.

Does anyone know of a better way to do this? I'm not technically minded, and I don't want to buy new hardware, but is there a different way to do this or a way to speed this up? One thing that I've noticed is that it seems to go faster if I copy and paste smaller "chunks" of data rather than select 2 TB of data and copy and paste that. It seems if I transfer it in 100 GB chunks that the transfer speed seems to be a bit higher.

Any thoughts or advice?

Thanks!