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How fast is your file transfer speed on your network?
Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 12:37 PM on 12.09.09 |
->> I have a gigabyte network, server and computer both have sata hard drives.
On average I am getting around 9 to 12MB/second on file transfers, is this normal?
What speeds do you guys get? |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 12:56 PM on 12.09.09 |
->> That's slow.
Of course, you're never going to achieve true "gigabit" speeds on a gigabit network, and the OS adds a lot of overhead on top of that.
But lately using Microsoft Richcopy, I'm hitting around 30-40% of my gigabit network's nominal capacity - or 40-50 MB/sec.
Note that network speeds are measured in BITS per second and most file transfers are measured in BYTES per second. One byte = 8 bits.
Microsoft Richcopy: it's one of those 'unsupported' little utilities that comes out of Redmond. It is a little rough, in particular browsing for drives over a network is annoying (you have to "connect" and manually enter the name of your networked computer) but it is a fast, multi-threaded copy utility.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?p...
There's also robocopy, which is built into the command line in Windows. But Richcopy is supposed to be faster, especially over networks.
I'm assuming you're using Windows. If not...please feel free to ignore most of the above advice. :) |
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Primoz Jeroncic, Photographer
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Kranj | SI | Slovenia | Posted: 12:59 PM on 12.09.09 |
->> It depends... But let's start from beginning... with units which show speed. Standard unit for transfer speed is bps or bits per second, not bytes per second (Bps), but unfortunately most of today's programs use bytes/sec, while network manufacturers and ISP use proper units (bits per second). That's first reason for many missunderstandings.
The way you wrote, I assume you are talking about 12MBps (bytes). This actually means 96Mbps (bits), which means it almost fills 100Mbps network (about 10% of 1Gbps network you have). This speed is pretty good, so you don't have much to complain. Especially since most of cheap 1Gbps routers/switches are nowhere near capable of actually transferring data at such speed.
But if you are actually talking about 12Mbps (bits), then speed is definitely too low. |
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 1:58 PM on 12.09.09 |
->> Okay, so I found an add-in for home server that allowed for FTP usage.
Using FTP I am getting much better speeds plus the ability to upload several files at once. |
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