In article , Peter Jason
wrote:

I've bought a new 4000GB Seagate HDD to hold
2500GB of data from an old 4000GB suspect one.

To copy over all the data will take ages. Is
there a faster way?

it sounds like you're using usb 2 hi speed, which is very slow and
would take around a day or so to copy it, quite possibly longer if
there are a lot of small files versus fewer larger ones.

with usb 3 superspeed, it should take several hours. let it run
overnight and it should be done by morning.