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All iPads In general how long does it take to transfer a total of 1 TB of local data to a iPad Pro 1 TB ?
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Generally hours, assuming the computer uses USB3 protocol and the cable supports USB3 standard.
It might as well be just speed difference and the bottleneck can be ur PC’s internal storage speed imo.
Wrong, unfortunately. It’s a charging cable capable of only USB 2 speeds.
@max2 you'd be looking at 1000 minutes roughly, assuming that everything kept pumping along and maxing out that USB 2 cable all along. About 17 hours. Some things may be faster to transfer via wifi than the cable in the box (depending on your network).
OK, maybe that Belkin USB-C to USB-A cable is capable of USB3 speed as I never used that USB-C cable came with the box to transfer data before.
If you’re using USB-C, which transfers data at a rate of 5GB/Second, you could look at a Estimated time of:
5-25 Minutes. This varies a lot, depending on what Hardware you have.
Hope this Helps.
Your math is off by at least a factor of 5.
5GB per second is way beyond any USB protocol.
Oops, my bad.
It’s 5 Gigabits per Second, not Gigabytes. In that case to transfer 1 Terabyte of Data it would take about:
25 Minutes.
Sorry About that.
Gentlepersons,
sadly there is a known bug for iPadOS 13 and, as it looks at the moment, iPadOS 14 (if you search for slow USB-C speed, file/media corruption you will get quite a lot hits on e.g. reddit or Apple’s mailing lists)
For the moment none of the suggested solutions (different file system or cluster size on the external media) seems to work.
The only reliable way to copy a lot of files without corruption is via WLAN (or LAN, which is so much faster but requires of course additional hardware).
You can and should report it here -> https://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
Or, if you participate on the beta or developer program, here -> https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/
EDIT: someone on a different thread seems to have found a solution -> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/file-corruption-on-copy-to-external-storage.2235171/page-2
sadly there is a known bug for iPadOS 13 and, as it looks at the moment, iPadOS 14 (if you search for slow USB-C speed, file/media corruption you will get quite a lot hits on e.g. reddit or Apple’s mailing lists)
For the moment none of the suggested solutions (different file system or cluster size on the external media) seems to work.
The only reliable way to copy a lot of files without corruption is via WLAN (or LAN, which is so much faster but requires of course additional hardware).
You can and should report it here -> https://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
Or, if you participate on the beta or developer program, here -> https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/
EDIT: someone on a different thread seems to have found a solution -> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/file-corruption-on-copy-to-external-storage.2235171/page-2
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