Samsung magician reports these characteristics for my NTFS-formatted SSD:
When I copy a large file in explorer, Windows reports around 200 MB/s:
But copying a large folder of many small files can be up to three orders of magnitude slower:
Is this the best I can expect or are there ways to speed it up?
EDIT:
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Zipping the files will not make the copy significantly faster since the system still has to read all the files on zipping and then write them on unziping, while adding another overhead and making a common operation less convenient.
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I am aware that command line copying is faster, and it what I do when I need to copy a very large amount of data, but dropping to a command line to save several seconds is probably not worth it.
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TeraCopy was a somewhat faster than a native drag-and-drop, clocking in at 53 seconds vs. 68.
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I guess the answer is "no, you can't make explorer file operations faster but you can use other options when needed", which is what I suspected but wanted to make sure there was nothing specific to my system making it uncharacteristically slow. Thank you for all your comments.
Best Answer
You can use TeraCopy for copying a bunch of files faster. I also use it for fast copy/paste operations. Even you can also compress the files using zip format. But I recommend 7z files (using 7-zip) for a balance between compression ratio and speed.