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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
As others have said peer to peer is different than internet based FTP.
We have several PC all running Windows 10 Pro on a all peer to peer system. We also have two network based RAIDs for archiving projects.
For most data moving we use the computer that has the data to send the data to where we want it.
One reason is Windows is just sure all users are idiots, and need to be protected. It will hide some files from another computer looking at a folder of files, that are there.
We transfer a lot of files, mostly a folder at a time. Some are zillions of little 1&2 K text files, to 25 GB tif files.
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The big problem with transferring a lot of little files vs. one big honker is that for each file being transferred there is the initial communications for "hey here comes this file STOR it a this location" and the acknowledgement of that communication. Across thousands of little files it adds up.
Depending on what is being copied, if any of it is being re-copied, etc. you may want to look at using rsync (yes, there are Windows version). Won't speed up initial copy but updates are deltas only.