Problem RAM iMac late 2013

Timothy mac said:

Hey,

I'm a filmmaking student and for that I bought a pretty powerful Imac.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/531zttvb97dljko/AACeyh84KkJnAyvIqcCbW0LHa?dl=0

Sometimes I have to transfer large documents around 200GB but it's taking my mac 3days or more if I'm looking to my tasks, only 5 Gb of my 32Gb Ram is used and my CPU is less then 5%

What's wrong, can somebody help me?

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Your 32GB of RAM won't help you for transfering documents! Neither the power of your computer.
What kind of transfer are you doing: network? On an external drive?

Timothy mac said:

Hey,

I'm a filmmaking student and for that I bought a pretty powerful Imac.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/531zttvb97dljko/AACeyh84KkJnAyvIqcCbW0LHa?dl=0

Sometimes I have to transfer large documents around 200GB but it's taking my mac 3days or more if I'm looking to my tasks, only 5 Gb of my 32Gb Ram is used and my CPU is less then 5%

What's wrong, can somebody help me?

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You need a very expensive fast drive. Like a 12TB Pegasus R6 12TB, or an external SSD (if you want transfer speeds above 400MB/s).

Timothy mac said:

Hey,

I'm a filmmaking student and for that I bought a pretty powerful Imac.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/531zttvb97dljko/AACeyh84KkJnAyvIqcCbW0LHa?dl=0

Sometimes I have to transfer large documents around 200GB but it's taking my mac 3days or more if I'm looking to my tasks, only 5 Gb of my 32Gb Ram is used and my CPU is less then 5%

What's wrong, can somebody help me?

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I recommend that before you buy expansive computers like this, you read up what the components do.
Neither RAM nor cpu will help you transfering files. Also the "ram used" number in activity monitor does not really mean that much.

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Timothy mac said:

I'm transferring from an intel SSD 530 series ( black magic ) to a seagate Expansion Desktop 2TB.

I already was thinking of buying a big SSD, any recommendations?

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Are those two drives both externaly connected?
Do they use thunderbolt or usb 3.0
How about the ssd in your iMac?

Timothy mac said:

Sometimes I have to transfer large documents around 200GB but it's taking my mac 3days or more

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When you say "black magic" I'm guessing you're talking about one of these?

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicmultidock

Copying 200GB from your SSD to the external HDD should take around 22 minutes, not 3 days