Which is faster?

[Xtreme Gamer]

Which is faster? sata 3 6gbps or local network via ethernet?

[Snickerzz]

Are you talking wifi or wired? Wired, always

[Cacao]

Are you talking wifi or wired? Wired, always

Since when do we have wireless ethernet?

[The_Strict_Nein]

Which is faster? sata 3 6gbps or local network via ethernet?

 

I'm assuming this is between having NAS and a local hard drive?

 

Unless you have a 10Gbit NIC, the SATA 6 interface will be faster than a wired network connection

[Nxl8]

Which is faster? sata 3 6gbps or local network via ethernet?

I'm not 100% sure if this is the answer you are looking for but, SATA 6GB/s is faster as normal consumer ethernet is 1GB/s, though it does go up higher to 50GB/s which is non-consumer stuff and VERY expensive.

[The_Strict_Nein]

I believe that a Cat6 ethernet cable can handle a 10gb/s speed but i am not sure.

 

It can, but it's no good without a 10Gbit NIC.

 

Like having a SATA 3 drive but only a SATA 2 controller

[LAwLz]

Well SATA 6Gb/s offers more bandwidth than Gigabit Ethernet, and if you're going to transfer data between hard drives then there will be less overhead with SATA as well.

You're kind of comparing apples and oranges though. One is meant for use inside a computer, and the other is meant to connect computers together.

They have different uses. For example SATA cables are only allowed to be 1 meter. A cat5e Ethernet cable can be ~100 meters.

[Willson94]

Depends on the speed of your router and switches used.  I have a gigabit router. So sata3 is obviously faster being 6 gigabits.

[Zeke]

I believe that a Cat6 ethernet cable can handle a 10gb/s speed but i am not sure.

CAT6 can handle 10 Gbps, but it has some length limitations (I think 30-50m, depending on the environment), whereas CAT6A is less restrictive. But I think we have to give it a couple more years.

[skywake]

The only thing I would add is that if you're talking about HDD vs NAS (which I assume was the point of the comparison) then it's not as simple as that. A HDD doesn't get anywhere near saturating a SATA 6Gb/s link. In practice a standard single HDD, and in particular a non-performance one, won't even saturate Gigabit Ethernet. So a typical consumer NAS with a couple of WD Reds in RAID 1 and a single WD Green in your PC? Not that much difference on paper at least, I'd still put my money on the HDD because of network overheads but. An SSD that saturates the SATA interface and anything on your network? Night and day. SATA wins.