FastCopy
FastCopy is a Copy/Backup Software on Windows.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
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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 open source software, released under the permissive BSD license, so you can modify this software.
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 open source software, released under the permissive BSD license, so you can modify this software.
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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
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- File Copying
- file-compare
- copy-manager
- error-checker
- backup-and-restore
- file-backup
- data-integrity-test
- data-migration
- hash
- file-verification
FastCopy
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Our users have written 9 comments and reviews about FastCopy, and it has gotten 102 likes
- Developed by Shirouzu Hiroaki
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.7
- 31 alternatives listed
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View allFastCopy was added to AlternativeTo by Ola on Mar 24, 2009 and this page was last updated May 24, 2019.
Increible! tranferencia de datos a 30 M/Bs por usb2.0 a PC
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.
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 2 years ago
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.
FastCopy works as promised and has a lot of useful features. I mainly use it to move files between my internal and external hard-drives. It's as fast as I expected and works fine, and has a verify option (a must for making backups). As an added bonus, it's available on the PortableApps platform!
Stolen, I tested it! 3
It is an excellent program, its it is clear! It does me took that 10m14s to move my 2.34 GB, while TeraCopy has not even moved 1 GB in 15 minutes (with checking the free space), I also deleted the 2.34 GB of the old path in 2m17s... so nothing to complain about... well except for the interface ^^" , and I didn't know why software does not launched with the "Drag&Drop", and I saw that it is necessary to use the right button of the mouse %S.
It would be better to be more integrated to the Shell, but given its performance quality I will not complain. ;P
TeraCopy is crap. Because TeraCopy fragments the files, even when copying to a freshly formatted hdd. And in my test, TeraCopy wasn't faster than FastCopy.