I’ve replaced my old laptop with a new one and I have over 350GB worth of data to move over, moving all of it to an external drive and then moving them to the new laptop doesn’t seem efficient and it seems like it’s gonna take forever

I know there are some special cables that can do that but I don’t wanna waste money on something that I’m only gonna use once every 5 years at most.

    • Xero@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      my home network is quite slow and the ethernet port on my old laptop is damaged, it only works sometimes so it’ll definitely disconnect during the process.

      • Slapplebags@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Buy a cheap USB to Ethernet adapter then and directly connect the two computers via Ethernet. USB to USB is possible but it’s not worth the time and effort, network will be faster and easier. Or why not just buy a cheap external hard drive? According to Amazon a 500gb external hard drive can be had for $30 USD.

      • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Without getting specialized equipment, you may not have much other option. Using WiFi on the laptop might still be faster than what you’re doing now. It’s worth trying with a subset of the data possibly to see which is faster.