why does it take longer to transfer hundreds of files totalling 4 gigabytes than transferring one big 4 gigabyte file?

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why does it take longer to transfer hundreds of files totalling 4 gigabytes than transferring one big 4 gigabyte file?

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Each file has some additional metadata. It’s location, file size, address of contents, last modified time, etc. This scales with the number of files.

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