Copying Large Volume Data

[cmh2001]

At my company we have technicians that work from laptops in remote locations. They collect large amounts of data from our inspection equipment and they need to make a copy of it and get it back to our home office.

The data sets can be anywhere from 20GB to over 100GB.

Our technicians need to make two copies of the data. We currently use external USB hard drives. Right now they download the data from our equipment, copy it to a hard drive, then make a second copy to another hard drive. Then sends the hard drive via FedEx to our home office.

I want to know the fastest technology of transferring data from a laptop to an external media (USB, firewire, ethernet, tape media, optical, etc.). Since our people work in remote locations, they may only have WiFi internet access, I'm thinking FedEx is the simplest method of sending the data to the home office. Does anyone have any better ideas?

 

[tremmor]

for wireless you can forget it. slow.
direct connection a dedicated server with encryption for business. FedEX next day delivery.

 

[allan29t]

You can upload on a FTP, but faster is to copy to HDD and send it with postal services.

 

[cmh2001]

How about the copying from one hard drive to another locally. Is USB the fastest?

 

[lubo4444]

HDD is probably the best way to do it. Everything other than that, will be slow.

 

[Charr]

As people have said, storing it on a HDD is going to be the fastest route.

As for which type of cord is faster, that would be firewire by a fairly large margin.