Need Tech Savvy Help Please

[clubesquire]

Hi all 🙂

Unusual question probably, for in here, but I know there’s a wealth of knowledge residing here too 🙂

I’m running Windows 10 on a Dell Desktop with a 250gb SSD. It does ‘stuff’ really well, but now im close to a full disk. My files are backed up to and external 1tb hard drive.

What I’m wanting to do is transfer (not back up or copy) the files from my internal SSD to another 3tb Hard Drive, thus freeing up my SSD. I’m told there are good programs that will manage this for me, or that you can buy specific external drives with the necessary software on board.

Can anyone give me some direction with this please. I’m very untidy with my puter and it’s a bit of a mess.

Thanks,

Melina.

[gec2002]

SSDs are available in more than 2 sizes Samsung Evo 850 is now available up to 4TB (approx $1500), 2TB, 1 TB, 0.5TB, etc.

clubesquire, if you have an external drive you can just Cut (Ctrl X) and Paste (Ctrl V) your Files and Folders to the connected external drive.  However take care as they can be lost if interrupted, better to Copy and Paste and then Delete from the original source.  Note this for moving Files and Folders only not Windows settings and applications. 

[clubesquire]

Big thanks Dazzle 🙂 I’ll definitely be chasing your advice down. Wonderful, thank you.

Thanks GEC.:-) All noted. Good advice that I’ll take heed of.

You are all such terrific people in here. Please know that I value your help, very much.

Melina.

[brerrabbit585]

I just copy my whole pictures folder to my external hard drive and after I check it copied I delete the previous version. Ditto for my 'music' folders, which aren't actually music but are speaking, so same thing.

My mind boggles at how much people have on their hard drives. I'm paranoid about clutter on my computer and have everything in well organised folders and subfolders that I regularly tidy up and delete stuff I no longer require. A lot of my pictures are for ebay and when something sells I move it to a file for 'sold' and I have a folder for each month and delete it several months later.

I've only used 69 GB of the available 931 GB on my hard drive. That's how I like it!! I have thousands of pictures but keep it down as much as possible.

[clarry100]

I run off a laptop which has an internal 128gb SSD. I also have a USB external regular 750gb HDD attached.

I only have the windows 10 operating system and program files on the SSD. That's where I need the performance.

When I need to work with an app that produces data files I plug in the external USB drive and work from that. Hence no data files are stored on my SSD. It's a tad slower to work from the USB drive but still quite acceptable speed things.

Every day I run a backup program which compressed and saves any changed data (incremental backup) and saves the backup away onto a network backup drive I've setup. So my data files are stored in two different places.

Doing things this way means that a 128gb SSD is big enough and I still have the safety of backup of data in two physically different locations.

[clubesquire]

Thanks Brer and Clarry 🙂

i’ll be Sorting it once and for all this weekend. I just hope it doesn’t sort me .... lol.

Melina.

[countessalmirena]

Melina, give Scorptec or Centrecom a call and explain what you want to do. They may be able to get a high speed transfer cable to you by the weekend. If you're not in Victoria, there must be similar stores nearby. I'm suggesting this because the time it takes to copy a lot of data can be prohibitive, not to mention having to be there to do the copying in bits.

If your file sizes are mostly small-ish, then the copy and delete method will probably be fine.

If your file sizes are large (video files, high-def photos, music files, large documents, etc.) then a high speed transfer cable may be your best bet.

Whatever you decide, good luck and I hope you don't get frazzled! A nice glass of Spanish sherry, or - no, wait - I had a wonderful glass of Rosso & Riccardo "Primitivo - vino rosso puglia" 2011... and perhaps some brie or Stilton with it, and the whole thing should go smoothly.