Proper way to copy contents of a drive

I have a 500GB G-Raid mini drive that has about 400GBs of various material on it,...mostly video. I need to copy the entire contents of the drive to a LACIE 500GB mini hub drive.
Problem is that when I SELECT ALL (contents on the G-RAID), COPY and go to paste that to the LACIE, it starts copying fine but inevitably there comes up an error that there is something on the G-RAID that can't be copied, stopping the entire process.
I've encountered this when copying data between lots of different types of drives and what I've found is that if you copy the files individually, they go fine and can be copied, but when you try to copy the entire contents in one shot, you get the error stating individual files can't be copied.
Is there a "correct" methodology for copying all data from one external drive to another external drive?
Thanks for any input.

BEST way would be to get Carbon COpy Cloner (free...versiontracker.com) and use it to clone EVERYTHING on the drive.
Next best way is to highlight everything and then DRAG AND DROP. COpy/Paste of contents from one drive to another...dunno about that. Never tried that. Drag and Drop is good though.
But use Carbon Copy Cloner...that is the best way.
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