Which is faster, copying everything at once or one thing at a time?

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Published on 2011-03-04T00:34:04Z Indexed on 2011/03/04 7:27 UTC
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I am transferring a bunch (20+) of large (1GB+) files to my external flash drive over USB 2.0. Is it quicker to just sling them all over at once (as in one at a time but not waiting for the previous transfer to finish) so that there are multiple transfers going on, or transfer one, wait for it to finish, transfer the next. The files are coming from a variety of locations so I can't do one single big transfer.

Are there any other advantages to one way or the other that are worth considering?

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