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| Thread ID: 143098 | 2016-11-20 02:32:00 | Network Drive | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1428959 | 2016-11-20 02:32:00 | I have a network HD and data transfer is in theory 1 Gb/s. My external WD passport Hard Drive is in theory 5 Gb/s and it is FAST. Is there a way to have one hard drive (SATA 3 or USB 3 ) to support two computers so each computer can have the 5 to 6 Gb/s transfer rate and share data? If I map a SATA3 Hard drive from my 1st computer so my 2nd computer can us it, then wouldn't my 2nd computer be getting the 6 Gb/s in theory? If so then a network drive for the home is not very productive. | lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1428960 | 2016-11-20 02:57:00 | For one of transfers or occasional use a fast external drive is the way to go, if you use it a lot though a mapped network drive is a lot more convenient and fast enough for most people. In practice mechanical hard drives only manage to exceed 1Gb/s in short bursts and usually can't manage much more than 80-100 MB/s (640-800 Mb/s) sustained transfer speeds so the network is fast enough to not bottleneck that much. Sure in a perfect world some can go a bit faster than that but not all that much on average. SSD's are a different story of course, but in order for that to matter both your source and destinations drives have to be SSD's. No mapping a drive from one PC to another will not run faster than the network connection between them, think about it, you knew that. A network drive at home is in fact very productive. It lets you store all your files and media in one place than can be easily accessed from any PC without duplicating the files or moving them around. The only time the speed limitation would really matter is if you regularly transfer large amounts of data on and off it, which isn't actually the case for most home users who put it there once and leave it there. I use mine for storing and streaming TV shows and movies and it's perfectly good for that. Just as a test while writing this I copied a 5.7 GB movie from my network drive to my C: drive, speed was ~ 95-105 MB/s with a few dips down under 80, whole movie copied in about 50 seconds. Then I moved it back and got a flat line at 60Mb/s - hitting the write speed limit of my NAS there, took 1.5 mins on the return trip. Perfectly acceptable performance for any task I will submit it to. Then I tested from my 8TB RAID 0 local drive and got a around 230 MB/s and a 10 second copy (with an awesome burst well over 1TB/s initially). That's a whole lot faster but so what really, how often to you copy large amounts of data around and do you sit there waiting for it? Clearly a striped array is much faster than a network connection. |
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| 1428961 | 2016-11-20 14:02:00 | Lets make a long story short. My WD passport drive is 5 times faster than my network drive but that is on one computer so my question is can 2 computers share the same drive and be as fast as a WD passport drive? | lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1428962 | 2016-11-21 04:08:00 | No. | dugimodo (138) | ||
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