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Back-ground: I am copying data from old back-ups on CD-ROMS and DVDs to the hard-drive of my new PC (mb: Z-390, cpu:Intel Core i7, hd:2TB, ssd: M.2 type) from CD-ROMs and DVDs in the optic drive to the hard disk or SSD.

With Nautilus the operation is extremely slow and spends quarter to half a day for one DVD with 4GB data (lots of small files).

Copying (from the terminal window) using cp or scp is also extremely slow.

However, with rsync I achieve a significant speed up where the copy operation spends only 10-20 minutes: 

cd /media/path/
rsync -rvh --chmod=ug=rwX * /to/path/
Joje
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Rsync is generally faster than cp or SCP because of how it operates even on non optical drives. Checkout this question.

Michael
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