Hello to all and thanks for any help you can provide
I'm testing a file transfer program and have some questions I
hope someone can answer.
With the program installed on the computer that has the files
I need to transfer to an NAS drive over my small office network
the data rate is around 1.1 MB/s.
When I install the software on a second computer on the network and ask
that computer to go to the first computer and move the files from there
to the NAS drive the data speed jumps up to around 2.92 MB/s. It is
stabe at that rate for the duration.... several hours, in fact.
That's almost three times the rate!
How can this be. Is the overhead of the program such that it causes the
data transfer to be less for the computer running it? By having the
software on another computer the first computer is now free to just move
date as fast as it can?
Second question. With this second method, is the data passing through
this "boss" computer or going direct to the NAS drive?
Third question. I plan to use external hard drives to hold these files
in the future. I have ordered the type that has both UBSB2 and Firewire
and have combo cards in the computers to support either.
Am I correct in my thinking that Firewire is best for this application
in that it does not tax the CPU of the host system like USB2 does?
Would that likely mean a faster date transfer rate or not?
Thanks a bunch,
George
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