I have a laptop and new desk top, my son has a desktop of his own. I've been wanting this type of cable for some time but "Worst Buy" wanted $45 for a similiar unit. So for a long time I had been transfering via 4 or 8GB usb drives, which is ok but not nearly as fast as this thing! I transfered 20gb of mp3 music [windows media] from laptop [vista] to son's desktop [windows 7] in about 5 minutes...NO joke! It worked so fast that I thought it did not work at first. It is basically plug 'n play. I set it up, dropped 'n dragged entire music file and walked away. My son was in his room watching TV and told me it was done and at first I thought he was nuts. Amazon comes thru again with best price, no tax, free ship and a great product. Definitely worth getting is you want to move large data, media or picture files. Diamond USB PC to PC File Transfer Device
Dunno what they're talking about in the description where it says 480Mbps, however on the technical specs, it says 16Mbps. The 16Mbps is correct, which is nowhere as fast as 480, but it's definitely not slow. I've used this with XP, Vista, and Seven, back and forth, through each one. It works, for all of them. I've even run it through a desktop with XP to a laptop with XP, Vista, and Seven (not that it would make a difference, but I just thought I'd throw that tidbit in). So, if you're skeptical because this is much less expensive than the other file transfer cables, don't be. If you pay $60+ you might be getting 480Mbps, but if you just need a basic data transfer cable and don't work in the music or video industry, this is perfectly fine (and no, having a million songs on your computer doesn't make you a part of the music industry, however with all the music you've stolen, you might as well own a share in it - I am simply referring to those who have thousands of WAV or FLAC files; Mp3s and Mp4s, or whatever, are highly compressed).
So anyway, without any hesitation, if you need a file transfer cable, get this. There aren't that many which are bidirectional and work on most OS.
Software auto-installs easily on any PC as soon as plugged in; no install disc needed. Dual file directory panes, similar to Windows Explorer, appear on both PC's allowing moving or copying, either way, between your PC's. Works perfectly with my older desktop (XP) and new laptop (Windows 7). No problems; does everthing I hoped for and expected. Highly recommend.
Copied a good chunk of files from the PC to the laptop with this cable, but out of about 20GB the product could not handle 4GB; the transfer dialog sat on "Processing abc [directory]" for 20 minutes before I manually stopped the process. No files were written to the laptop during this time.
Tried again, skipping the offending dir, and now the thing hangs at a simple vti_cnf directory. Had to again stop manually as no progress for about 15 minutes.
Further, if the cable finds a problematic file (e.g. "file name too long") it simply stops and cancels the remaining transfer. No option to "skip" the offending file, and now you must manually search your directories to figure out where exactly the process stopped.
Too bad the product does not work as advertised; would have been nice if it had.
PS: I ended up copying the remaining 4GB to an external drive and from there onto the laptop within 20 minutes. Using the external drive from the start would have been faster overall.
I have an old desktop full of stuff. I don't want to back it all up because some of the stuff is junk. So... I have it in a corner and was pulling files off as needed. However, sometimes I need to transfer larger files and a thumb drive becomes a pain. A portable hard drive, even more so.
This device allows me to plug into the old XP machine, and transfer by drag and drop.
It is so fast, that the transfer often beats the status bar... seriously! I'll see the staus bar pop-up for a transfer and immediately disappear, because the transfer is already complete. So far, I've only used it between XP and Vista 64. I'll amend this post if I encounter any problems with a Win 7 transfer.
Great product, simple to use. Just plug in to one PC, wait a second for software to load, click OK. Plug into second PC, wait a second for software to load and click OK on that PC. Then, both PC's have 2 Panes. Working from either PC, Drag and Drop from the upper and lower panes to transfer files. Just scroll through directories, compare directories, it is terrific. No more swapping, just drag and drop. Love it. (Wish the cord was a little longer than 6')
I bought this to move all of my stuff among my older computers (both windows xp) and my new one (windows 7). I got it when it was 4.99 (after the rebate- which I'm still waiting on) and it was well worth it. I just plugged it in and it installed the software on its own and it was very easy to move everything that I needed too. I moved stuff from xp to xp and xp to windows 7- all without any errors. All of the files transferred fully and relatively quickly. I also plan on using this device to get stuff off of my friends computers the next time I deploy, so if it continues to work as it did the first few times I'll continue to be very impressed. - Usb - Data Transfer - Easy Transfer Cable - Transfer Cable'
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