It took 2 more hours than it should have to copy 125GB
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Have you tried rsync?
Can it resume interrupted writes?
Heck to the yeah. I usually run
rsync -av src/ dst/
Which is verbose and archive mode (keeps mod times, user, etc). You can also add -P for progress.
Here is the man page https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync
If it gets interrupted, just run that same command again.
Edit: also it's usually preinstalled on every Linux distro and should be easy to install for Windows too.
I feel like rsync may genuinely be one of the best, most slept on tools out there. It even works over ssh.