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Hi there guys.

I was hoping that you could help with me with a project that I want to sort out.

Issue:
I have 1 TB of data I want to copy across from one hard drive to another.
1. The source is on a SSD
2. The destination is a HDD (spinning disk)
Both using USB 3 ports.

As an interesting project / experiment, I want to use a Raspberry Pi 4 B (4 GB RAM)
to act as the PC / bridge between the 2 HDDs to copy the data across.

I am going to use Raspberry Pi OS (2024-11-19-Bookworm), as the OS on the Pi.
And the MC (Midnight Commander) programme to do the copy operation.


Questions:
1. If I use the Pi, will any of the files from the source drive be copied to the SD card
of the Pi / OS as part of the copying process ?
(As I don't want any unnecessary, extra wear on the SD card).

2. If so, is there any way to avoid that, or force the Pi to use RAM only ?
(For the copying operation).

3. Is there anything else that I need or I'm missing in order to achieve this ?


TIA for any help or advice.

Statistics: Posted by Noob_Computa_Ninja — Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:40 pm

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