I have a USB drive that went to a RAW format. I successfully located my files to recover and I told it to copy them to my local drive. The file in question is about 1TB. About how long can I expect for it to finish undeleting that file? It has been running several hours (about 8 hours) now. I just don't have any kind of sense of how long it should take. I realize that different systems will take different times but I'm looking for an about. Is 8 hours just too long?
Thanks in advance for any guidance here.
How long to undelete a file?
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Re: How long to undelete a file?
The speed depends on your bottleneck. A USB 2.0 interface may reach 35 MB/sec. A USB 3.0 interface does not limit a modern 3,5'' HDD with 5400 rpm.kmeads wrote: ↑01 Jan 2024, 07:45 I have a USB drive that went to a RAW format. I successfully located my files to recover and I told it to copy them to my local drive. The file in question is about 1TB. About how long can I expect for it to finish undeleting that file? It has been running several hours (about 8 hours) now. I just don't have any kind of sense of how long it should take. I realize that different systems will take different times but I'm looking for an about. Is 8 hours just too long?
Thanks in advance for any guidance here.
Further bottlenecks are fragmentation and unreadable ("pending") sectors.
You have to convert 1TB/8 hours into MB/sec to compare.