Move Big Files Lightning Fast in Windows 8 with TeraCopy

Visualization expert Rick Van-over says Tera-copy is an easy and great way to easily move big files. Get details about Tera-copy in his review.

In my data center practice, I'm occasionally stuck moving very large files. There was a time when it was rare that I'd see a file larger than a CD or DVD's capacity, but nowadays, I often see multi-terabyte files. There are a couple of reasons why this is the case.

In my professional virtualization practice, I advocate for people to transition to disk-based backups. The other part of this is my emerging practice of working with Hyper-V virtual machines. For me, I'm always moving things around in Hyper-V, and files like a VHD or VHDX disk are actually quite large--much like that of the disk-based backup world.

Simply using Windows Explorer, PowerShell, Robocopy, or the now quite dated RichCopy are good, but myself and others in the virtualization community have come to fancy TeraCopy. It's free for non-commercial use, so it's very easy to try. The paid version, TeraCopy Pro, comes with additional features.

How to use TeraCopy

TeraCopy installs very easily and can optionally be added to the right-click context of Windows systems, which is how I recommend using it. After this is complete, a TeraCopy job can be done as shown in Figure A. (TeraCopy supports Windows 8 x64. The example in this article is Windows Server 2012 R2. Click the images to enlarge them.)

Figure A

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Move Big Files Lightning Fast In Windows 8 With Tera-copy