Re: [Samba] Expected transfer rate of samba, SATA over gigabit to SATA
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:09:21 -0700
- From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Samba] Expected transfer rate of samba, SATA over gigabit to SATA
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, darlingm <darlingm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hdparm only showed a 256Mbit/sec (32MB/sec) read rate from -- and the new
> server runs (currently) a single SATA drive which hdparm shows a
> 640Mbit/sec (80MB/sec) read rate from, just like the client's hdparm
> results on a SATA drive.
A single modern SATA drive can probably write ~40-50 MB per sec (large
sequential writes). But if it's busy doing anything else that will slow
dramatically.
I find Windows file transfers to vary dramatically in speed, even within a
local system, so I would expect your bottleneck to be there.
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