Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, With a couple of 100Mbps Ethernet cards, it shouldn't take much longer than an hour to transfer the data. Ethernet cards for desktop PCs are pretty cheap (I'd budget the equivalent of £20 or so - although you can pick them up for much less). You may find that the new system already has an Ethernet connection, so it may only be necessary to buy one for the Older PC. If you get a crossover cable, there is no need to buy a hub. HTH Mark Pope Swindon Wilts, UK http://www.monomagic.co.uk http://www.leica-gallery.net/mark-pope http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.pope4/Galleries/PAW/index.htm - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:39 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: how to move lots of GB between computers > > Ethernet is plenty fast for something that Nathan is only going to do > once. He can do it overnight and cheaply with a crossover cable and a > couple of NICs... which I assume he already has unless he's been using > dialup all this time. > -- > > Jim - http://www.hemenway.com > > > > Dante Stella wrote: > > > > If you get a Firewire card and firewire external drive, you can copy all > > the data to the drive, put the card in the other computer, and hook the > > drive back up. USB and serial are way too slow to handle that much data. > > So is Ethernet. > > > > Dante > > > > On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > > > > During my current visit to Denmark (sadly to end on Sunday) I have > > > purchased a new desktop PC. Now I have the challenge of moving about > > > 15-20 GB of data (mostly pictures) from the old PC to the new one. The > > > only obvious solution I can think of is to copy the files to CD-RW discs > > > on the old PC, copy the disc onto the new PC and repeat the process > > > until all files are moved. This is of course a rather laborious process, > > > so I wonder if there is some easy software out there which would for > > > example allow me to connect the two computers via the serial or UBS > > > ports and just transfer the files directly. I appreciate any > > > suggestions. > > > > > > Nathan > > > > > > -- > > > Nathan Wajsman > > > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > > > > > e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > > > Mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > > > > > > Photography page: http://www.wajsman.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html