"Preparing to copy" from NAS

Hi,
I am trying to copy about 4 TB of data from a portable NAS device to my server's local storage, both connected to the same network switch. Network speed is at 10 Gbps. I mapped the shared folder on NAS and dragged and dropped all the data to start the copy
process. Its been over 24 hours and it still shows "Preparing to copy...". Windows is trying to determine how much data to copy and its at 900 GB so far. This is very slow!
Is there a way to skip "preparing to copy" step and start the actual transfer of data?
Any third party tool that can copy fast?
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Hello,
below the NOVEMBER section in
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc135870.aspx you will see that the utilityspotlight_11.exe is about the RobocopyGUI and that way you have a Microsoft source.
For the splitting part you understand it correct.
You may also check out RichCopy also from a Microsoft guy BUT not supported from Microsoft itself
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
MVP, MCP, MCTS
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
My Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/mweber/
Disclaimer: This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights.

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