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Old Feb 14, 2016, 1:00 pm
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dlerner
 
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Originally Posted by weltfrieden
I have a 3TB external USB 3.0 hard drive connected to my old Macbook Pro(2014 version). The 3TB is almost full, with only about 100GB of free space left.

I bought another 3TB drive(same brand and model number) and hooked it up. I then selected all the files on the source drive and copied them to the new drive. It took a little over 10 hours for the copying to complete.

Is that normal? Or is there something wrong with my Macbook Pro or either of the 3TB drives?

Thanks!
IT's usually considerably faster to use Disk Utility for this kind of copy rather than the Finder.
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