FastCopy
FastCopy is a Copy/Backup Software on Windows.
- Free • Proprietary
- File Copy
- File Manager
- File Sync
- Windows
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What is FastCopy?
FastCopy is the fastest copy, delete, & sync software on Windows. It uses modern checksum verification to ensure copy accuracy and data integrity. It handles long Unicode path names over MAX_PATH (260 bytes), and automatically optimizes copy mode operations between the same storage device, or different storage devices.
In Diff HDD mode, reading and writing are multithreaded in parallel. Same HDD mode uses a larger read buffer so write operations will not cause slow disk thrashing. Because FastCopy doesn't use the OS cache, other applications and processes remain fast, and speed approaches the limit of the storage device. High performance is obtained from using the Win32 API instead of MFC.
FastCopy has an Include/Exclude filter that allows you to customize large file operations, and it has a job manager. FastCopy can automatically run only one operation at a time, to avoid disk thrash, and achieve the highest possible speed. FastCopy is freeware.
In Diff HDD mode, reading and writing are multithreaded in parallel. Same HDD mode uses a larger read buffer so write operations will not cause slow disk thrashing. Because FastCopy doesn't use the OS cache, other applications and processes remain fast, and speed approaches the limit of the storage device. High performance is obtained from using the Win32 API instead of MFC.
FastCopy has an Include/Exclude filter that allows you to customize large file operations, and it has a job manager. FastCopy can automatically run only one operation at a time, to avoid disk thrash, and achieve the highest possible speed. FastCopy is freeware.
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Backup & Sync • File Management • Security & Privacy • OS & UtilitiesPlatform details
Windows: Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10; Windows 2008(&R2)/2012(&R2)/2016
Tags
- Backup
- data-integrity-test
- data-migration
- File Copy
- File Manager
- hash
- file-verification
- copy-manager
- error-checker
- verification
- backup-and-restore
- File Recovery
- File Backup
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FastCopy
Summary
Our users have written 12 comments and reviews about FastCopy, and it has gotten 109 likes
- Developed by Shirouzu Hiroaki
- Proprietary and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.9
- 31 alternatives listed
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FastCopy was added to AlternativeTo by Ola on Mar 24, 2009 and this page was last updated Dec 31, 2021.
looks really fine. was looking for an open-source, scriptable alternative - windows 32/64 Oses - to supercopier2 (quite good but not scriptable). Does the job efficiently and quietly. it's quick. it's portable, non-invasive if you want (644Ko). command switches documentation provided as chm in english and japanese. time saver app. if you're here there's a reason have a try ;)
5 stars so far.
It's fast. Also, many useful features like the ability to save recurring tasks and access them via CLI switches (shortcuts!), smart queuing when starting multiple jobs affecting one disk and skipping older files already present.
I gave FastCopy 3.80 a try but cancelled during the operation. I was copying 41 Gb of files from a laptop to an almost empty WD Elements external drive. Said drive is only a few months old and has never shown a problem. The copying was being performed at almost double the speed of the normal Windows copying process according to FastCopy. Unfortunately, within a few minutes, a clicking noise was coming from the external drive so I quickly cancelled the job, uninstalled FastCopy and re-booted. Subsequent copy jobs using Windows Copy function have been fine, with no clicking noise from extHDD. According to Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 5.30 the extHDD is okay and did not exceed 33 degrees Celsius while FastCopy was running. A clicking extHDD is worrisome. Has anyone else had a similar experience while using FastCopy?
Using for years with external hard disks, never had a problem.
Reply written almost 3 years ago
My guess is that the acoustics management of your hard drive keeps the seeks silent when copying data slowly. As you noticed, FastCopy sends data much faster to the drive, which is exactly what it is supposed to do. A 1-star rating because your HDD is making noises when put to work is inappropriate.
Reply written 9 months ago
It is not longer opensource, according to authors site: "(Due to various circumstances, distribution of the source code is temporarily suspended ... Please use FastCopy as freeware with no guarantee)"
I use this as a secondary copy tool to TeraCopy. I use TeraCopy as a replacement for the native copy tool for Windows, while this acts as the tool I go to when I want to copy a really large amount of files in size, since it seems to be the best and fastest tool all around. Still sadly it can't replace TeraCopy for daily use to me, mostly die to it's lest sleek and user friendly UI.
In short, this is my heavy duty copier =D
Increible! tranferencia de datos a 30 M/Bs por usb2.0 a PC
Another quality product from Japan! Maybe because of its origin, it hasn't got much attention. I must admit that I just knew about it via a user comment on some tech site. But if you know about Japan and Japanese, you'll know you're getting one of the very best programs here. Usually you only heard about TeraCopy or some English-origin softwares, but if you really read the detailed reviews on some tech sites, you'll see that when they mention about this FastCopy, they usually got better impression with it than TeraCopy.