Transfering data to new PC

[EvanJackPenn]

Hi there,

I'm building my new PC currently and I need to know the most effective way to transfer my data from my old laptop to my new HDDs.

I could use my 8GB USB stick, but it'd take an age to transfer ~80GB of stuff.

My old laptop has SATA I (1.5Gb/s) hard drives, so would hooking these up to a SATA III motherboard work well?

Thanks

[DannyM]

Connecting it through SATA would be possible, SATA3 is backwards compatible.

However, if you do this I recommend you remove your passwords from your laptop otherwise, you may have trouble with permissions when trying to copy data.

[EvanJackPenn]

Thanks. Presumably quicker than trying to do it over home network?

Would I just use normal SATA III cables?

Thanks again

[DannyM]

Yes any SATA cable should suffice. Doing it over a network is dependent on a few things however over a network would be my preferred choice but if your going to have your system open when building it, then manually adding the HDD would be quicker.

If you were to do it over a network it would be fairly easy, but I'd recommend connecting the laptop to your router via cable and also your computer to your router via cable.

[peterb]

You could also put the hdd from the old device into a USB caddy and transfer that way. U|SB 2 is OK but if your new machine has USB3 and you get a USB3 caddy, that would be even better!

[EvanJackPenn]

You could also put the hdd from the old device into a USB caddy and transfer that way. U|SB 2 is OK but if your new machine has USB3 and you get a USB3 caddy, that would be even better!

I'd rather not be purchasing extra things that I'll rarely use. Thanks anyway!


I think just plugging it in via SATA will be the easiest thing. Thanks all