Forum Post: Restore backup to USB 2.0 - Performance?

[James Palmer]

I have a copy of our databases on a USB 2.0 drive that I use as a development environment. Our main database is ~250GB and it takes a good few hours to restore. Does anyone have any tricks that I could use to improve that time? I've requested a USB 3.0 drive but not had the request approved as yet. I'm not too bothered about integrity of the data as it's just for my personal use.

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