Immediately, the sluggish crawl turned into a sprint. TeraCopy bypassed the standard buffers, its dynamic cache management squeezing every megabit of bandwidth out of the connection. When it hit a jagged edge—a corrupted file fragment—it didn't pop up a frantic warning or halt the queue. It simply skipped the file, logged the error, and kept racing toward the finish line.
"The system is bottlenecking," Elias muttered, his fingers dancing over a worn mechanical keyboard. "Windows Explorer is choking on the checksums."
