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…
nathpilland
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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…
Nicolas Raoul
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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?
Jim
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Are there any benefits to having ferrite cores integrated into HDMI cables?
Although many do not, some HDMI cables have a ferrite core integrated near one or both ends.
Are there any benefits to having ferrite cores integrated into HDMI cables?
I read these related Super User QAs:
Does the presence or size of the ferrite…
Amazon Dies In Darkness
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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…
Johannes
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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…
Toby
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Backing up on external exFAT HDD via USB using rsync is extremely slow (20kB/s)
I am backing up my machine on an external HDD hard-drive of 2TB formated in exFAT via USB using rsync on Ubuntu 22.04 and the file is extremely slow (sometimes stuck at 20kB/s for several seconds). How could I do to see what is the problem or speed…
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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…
SkyRipper
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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…
topherg
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Why Standards Place Limits on Data Transfer Rates?
This is a rather general question about hardware and standards in general:
Why do they place limits on data transfer rates, and disallow manufacturers from exceeding those rates? (E.g. 100 Mbit/s for Wireless G, 150 Mbit/s for Wireless N, ...)
Why…
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How do I fix very slow Wi-Fi on a laptop?
Having an issue getting fast Wi-Fi data transfer with my ASUS G533ZX laptop running Windows 11. These are public locations; Loves Travel Stop, various hotels and motels.
Transfer rate was 2 to 2.5 mps. Heard it might be the card, so upgraded the one…
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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…
Sopalajo de Arrierez
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