Uploading so slow

[mattyn1]

I have a HDD of just under 5TB of video data that I don't have backed up anywhere else - and I would hate to lose this. I have a iDrive account with 10TB of space and thought I would simply upload to that - but it is taking so blooming long. At the current rate it was predicting 11 hours, but reality having done less than 5% in 24 hours, it is gonna be weeks!

So I have sacked it off - hdd is WD My Passport Ultra 5TB USB-C - no idea on the transfer speed but writing to it was ok (from SD Card to it through a M2 MBA). My BB is through Sky (apparently Sky Broadband Superfast). No wifi issues etc.

Is there something wrong or am I expecting too much? I am thinking the only way to back up is to another HDD - thoughts would be appreciated.

Incidentally, I am backing up a shed load of photos to Amazon Photos from a SSD (Crucial X6 2TB) and that seems to be cracking on nicely.

Cheers!

edit: Just done the Sky check and D/: speed is 74.6Mb/s and upload is 18.8Mb/s.

Edited by mattyn1 on Monday 26th August 10:41

[markiii]

whats your broadband uplink speed?

[mattyn1]

markiii said:

whats your broadband uplink speed?

I thought that would be relevant...Just added that - 18.8Mb/s.

[jonsp]

Call it 20 meg up. So we're looking at a minute for 1gb, or 1000 minutes per TB. 5000 minutes for your stuff = 83 hours/3.5 days.

Just a matter of patience. Not sure there's a better answer - obviously you don't want to upgrade your broadband for this 1 job.

[mattyn1]

jonsp said:

Call it 20 meg up. So we're looking at a minute for 1gb, or 1000 minutes per TB. 5000 minutes for your stuff = 83 hours/3.5 days.

Just a matter of patience. Not sure there's a better answer - obviously you don't want to upgrade your broadband for this 1 job.

Awesome - thanks for the swift answer. Not sure it is uploading at 1min per Gb... could be some bottleneck at the iDrive end too? I did get the package really cheaply.

[abzmike]

I need to work within the constraints of a slow connection.. One thing that can happen is that a drive or folder that you have set to automatically sync to the cloud is duplicating the transfer you are consiously doing - You only really notice if moving something big in one lump.
The pictures uploading are likley showing to be clipping along, where as big video files look like they take ages, becuase there is less activity to see. As said above, a bit of patience will be needed, a watched kettle never boils...

[mattyn1]

Thank you!

[Steve_H80]

18.8mb/s upload is just a dream out here in the sticks, 1.5 mb/s is more usual. It took over 3 weeks to upload all my photos to the cloud 🤣

[dk365]

I think a previous poster is mixing up their bits and bytes.

If upload speed is 18Mbps then it will take about 8 minutes to upload 1GB.

https://downloadtimecalculator.com/Upload-Time-Cal...

[mattyn1]

That calculator is useful. Thank you.