I have a gaming laptop and a phone, both of which have USB 3.2 Gen 2 and Gen 1 ports. I also use a USB 4 Type-C cable. Now, recently, I have downloaded music files of over 300GB. If I transfer them one by one, it takes a lot of time. Today, I compressed the folder to a single zip file, and the transfer finished in less than 20m. Why is that so?

  • MotoAsh@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    Well if you’re unzipping on the flash drive, that’s a whole mountain worse than copying device to device. Why would you want to torture the flash drive and your patience like that?

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      6 days ago

      Right… that’s what I’m saying! My entire point.

      Sending a zip of music files to a phone, then decompressing that zip on the phone, seems like a really stupid idea to me. You’ve now set up a situation where you’re reading and writing to one drive rather than reading from one and writing to another.