Transferring a 1.5 TB file. | Shadow (ENG) | Page 1

dense kestrel Jan 31, 2026, 5:29 AM

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I have a 1.5 TB file that I am trying to transfer from my Shadow PC, to my actual PC. What would be the best and fastest way to do this?

I have been trying to use Google Drive, but even though I bought the 2TB allotment, it only shows 500GB available for the Drive in the app, though it shows 2 TB online, but it's terribly slow .

I tried using the USB passthrough, but that is pretty slow as well, showing it will take days to complete, and with Shadow timing out after 30 minutes, so ideal.

I tried Resilio, but doing a test, it took about an hour to transfer half a GB.

Which of these venues, would be best, do you know a better idea? Maybe I just need to optimize something to make it better. What do you think?

minor gyro Jan 31, 2026, 5:30 AM

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the idle timer is my concern even at max transfer speed

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fastest I've managed is over SMB or SSHFS

dense kestrel Jan 31, 2026, 5:31 AM

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What do these magical letters mean?

minor gyro Jan 31, 2026, 5:32 AM

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SMB is just built into Windows. You can use Tailscale to facilitate the networking, and mount a local folder or drive to Shadow.

dense kestrel Jan 31, 2026, 5:37 AM

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Any idea how I can make the USB Passthrough faster. I feel like that would probably be the fastest way. But I am getting copy speeds of like 4MB/s, even though the upload speed for Shadow is 100 MBs and the USB is connected through USB C, and the drive is USB 3.2

minor gyro Jan 31, 2026, 5:38 AM

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USB over IP just isn't meant for high speed data transfer reliably.

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tons of overhead compared to something like smb that was designed to move files over a network

dense kestrel Jan 31, 2026, 5:39 AM

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I'll try SMB, pretty easy to set up?

minor gyro Jan 31, 2026, 5:39 AM

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yeah and it's been around for so long there's tons of tutorials.

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main thing is tailscale and tailscale IP addresses.

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which that's just point and click too. just have to approve your local device and Shadow in the tailscale admin panel

dense kestrel Jan 31, 2026, 5:49 AM

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I'll check it out!

dense kestrel Jan 31, 2026, 11:26 AM

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Am I showed to use a mouse jiggler to keep shadow from timing it while transferring the files?

crystal viper Jan 31, 2026, 12:47 PM

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That will get you banned. Do not circumvent the idle timer.

serene shore Jan 31, 2026, 12:52 PM

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Even at the fasted possible upload speed (12.5MB/s) it would take you total of 33 hours 20 mins to transfer that amount of data.

So yeah it's going to take some time.

minor gyro Jan 31, 2026, 4:04 PM

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if you can split it into chunks, would probably save your sanity.

dense kestrel Jan 31, 2026, 8:29 PM

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serene shore Even at the fasted possible upload speed (12.5MB/s) it would take you total of 3...

Any tips on how to get that 12.5 speed? For me it's only showing 4.5 at most.

#Transferring a 1.5 TB file.