Is there a way to transfer thousand of small files faster on Windows 7?

I noticed that if I transfer a few large files between two hard drives, it's pretty speedy, at around at least 30 MB per second, but if I transfer thousands of files less than 5 KB, it is pretty damn too slow.. around 1 to 2 MB per second.

Is there a way to speed up the copy/paste process with thousands of small files on Windows 7?

You might want to take a look at TeraCopy which is a program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed by dynamically adjusting buffers to reduce seek times. TeraCopy can also do asynchronous copying which speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.

I have personally used this application and have found that it does speed up file transfers which usually would take some period of time to accomplish.

Hope this helps some.

The solution is to archive with WinRAR, but, when asked how to archive, choose store. This means that there will be no compression. Thus in approximately one minute you will end up with one large file to copy, which will copy very fast.

I tried to copy 19890 small files (5K or so each) and Windows told me that it would take 3 hours, TeraCopy said 3.2 hours, but with my method it only took 1.5 minutes.