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Questions tagged [transfer-rate]

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Can hard drives fully utilize SATA III?

My motherboard currently supports both SATA II and III (3 Gb/s and 6Gb/s respectively), but after reading some online, it seems as though connecting a HDD to the 6 Gb/s is pretty much pointless. If this is the case I'm going to leave my two SATA III…
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What can a program find out about a USB-C cable attached to the computer?

I plug an unknown USB-C cable into my computer. Theoretically, could a program read information about that cable? In particular: What version of USB it supports: 2.0, 3.1, etc. Whether it supports Thunderbolt, etc. Whether it supports Power…
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How to get the SATA 6Gb/sec transfer rate

I recently bought a 1TB WD drive which said "Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s" but when copying/transferring files the speed is 35MB/s. do you need special cables to get that rate?
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Identical SSDs on same port: Why is one SATA/600 and the other SATA/150?

Overview Over the course of a few months I purchased two of the same SSD from different stores (both 960GB SandDisk SSD PLUS, same firmware(Z33110RL) - just waited for them to be on sale) with the intention of combining them in RAID0. When the…
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SSD and HDD transfer-rates impossibly high

Sometimes when I transfer a file from my SSD (Samsung 840 pro) to the same SSD, the transfer-rate is 800+ MBps, which should impossible from a SATA6 drive. Also, my HDD performs at 300+ MBps, again impossible from a WD Black drive. How can these…
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OpenWRT USB performance on TP-Link TL-WDR3500

Yesterday i've flashed openwrt on my new router and configured the samba server etc., anticipating to get useful transfer speeds from the USB drive that i've connected. For testing purposes (and because my bus powered external usb3 hdd won't work) i…
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Transfer rate of splitting a USB 2.0 port

I am working on a program that requires data from two USB ports, however, I was wondering what would occur when utilising a USB splitter? Instead of two direct USB connections to the computer, what would happen to the transfer rate of each of the…
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Stopping Windows from consuming my bandwidth while copying files over lan

When I copy a file over my network using windows (in this case 7), it seems to use all available bandwidth which means that I can't do anything else on the network while the transfer is in progress. How can I limit the amount of bandwidth that…
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EXTREMELY slow transfer speed

I'm getting VERY slow transfer speeds with 3 different usb flash drives on different computers. This are the aspects I consider relevant: USB 3.0 driver is installed USB 3.0 is enabled from BIOS Windows 8.1 as OS USB 2.0 flash drives USB legacy…
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There could be any difference of speed in a simple "copy" command for a big (2GB) file between local and SSH execution?

Example scenario: - Linux machine (I think Operating System doesn't bother). - OpenSSH Server. - Source big file in hard disk, about 2GB (I think SSD or classic HD doesn't bother, neither). - Destination for the file: a (moderately fast 2.0) USB…
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How can I keep my file copy speed consistent?

I sometimes have big files (like the Bitcoin blockchain or a virtual machine disk image) that I want to copy to a flash drive so that I can move it to another computer. My flash drive is a SanDisk Cruzer, 32GB NTFS. Now, everything starts off…
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USB transfer speed for Windows 7 is incredibly slow to my external drive

I'm running Windows 7 Pro and am try to backup 116 GB of data to my external 1 TB hard drive. My laptop has only USB 2.0 ports and my hard drive is USB 3.0 compatible, as is the cable I'm using. I understand that the transfer speed should still be…
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How can I tell the transfer rate of each computer on my network?

I'd like to determine the instantaneous transfer rate of each device connected to my router. I don't have access to all these devices, and some of them aren't computers. I don't need these transfer rates to be continuously monitored and stored, I…
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USB transfers very slow (kB/s range only)

However When plugging my USB 2.0 flash drive into the USB 3.0 port of one of my laptops running W8 Im only getting around 2.5 kB/s! sometimes if its a larger transfer it will trail of to nothing at all!! The strange thing is when I plug it into a W7…
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Local file transfers slower than expected

2TB SATA III HDD via USB 3.0/2.0 external enclosure 500GB SATA II HDD via USB 2.0 external enclosure Both hooked up to Raspberry Pi, no hubs or other USB devices being used Both disks are mostly empty. Since USB 2.0 is supposed to be 480Mbit/s, and…
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