WiFi Network Transfer Speeds

[Ryois]

So I am using a PC with a Core i5 4th gen and the onboard Intel gigabit nic. In Windows 10, I am using Microsoft storage spaces because you cannot stripe disks in Windows 10. This is ran on a 54000rpm Sata3 and a 72000rpm sata 2. Then the disk is shared with the built in sharing. On the client side I have a m.2 nvme ssd and the onboard Intel Dual Band Wireless AC-8260. I copied a 4GB file windows 10 isos are handy! from the share and it was getting around 70MB/s close to the router and 40MB/s from where the laptop usually sitting.. Then I plug the laptop into a Ethernet port into the Realtek gigabit port and it copies at 112MB/s in task. Is the Ethernet speeds bottlenecked by gigabit or the HDDs? Note: I cannot test speeds very well locally on the PC because it only has HDDs no SSDs. Are these good speeds for a networked drives? If possible what can I upgrade to get better w/r speeds? I know I can upgrade the drives I might depends.

Ethernet Read: https://i.imgur.com/A6fJALB.png Ethernet Write: https://i.imgur.com/lTZT4T8.png

WiFi Read: https://i.imgur.com/rF5Jcss.png WiFi Write: https://i.imgur.com/IwAmkAE.png

[minibois]

With 7200RPM drives you can expect about 100MB per second speeds (MB, not to be confused with Mb), but they also have small amount of cache (usually 64MB) which can increase the speed of the drives a tiny bit.

How fast your WiFi is will depend on what band you're using (2.4 or 5Ghz), as 2.4 is much slower. It has a theoretical max of 300Mbps, which you can divide by 8 to get the MBps speed. In practice you won't often hit those speeds.

[Ryois]

5 hours ago, Minibois said:

With 7200RPM drives you can expect about 100MB per second speeds (MB, not to be confused with Mb), but they also have small amount of cache (usually 64MB) which can increase the speed of the drives a tiny bit.

How fast your WiFi is will depend on what band you're using (2.4 or 5Ghz), as 2.4 is much slower. It has a theoretical max of 300Mbps, which you can divide by 8 to get the MBps speed. In practice you won't often hit those speeds.

I am using the 5GHz band 2.4GHz is for IoT devices. Yes I understand MBps vs mbps. I copied from the internal HDD of the PC and it is a decent amount slower than my laptop copy. Which is always gonna be because nvme>ssd>hdd I have write back cache enabled is this good?

[AshleyAshes]

1 hour ago, Minibois said:

With 7200RPM drives you can expect about 100MB per second speeds (MB, not to be confused with Mb), but they also have small amount of cache (usually 64MB) which can increase the speed of the drives a tiny bit.

Er, yeah, modern mechanical drives are a lot faster than you would think.

 

As a single example, the Seagate Baracuda Pro series easily operates in excess of 200MB/s in sequential read or write.  The 12GB model specifically hits 250MB or so.

 

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3231211/storage/seagate-barracuda-pro-12tb-review.html

 

A lot of people have assumed that mechanical drive read and write speeds have remained stagnant over the last decade or more but this couldn't be farther from the truth.  As drives grow larger, data grows more dense, along with other technological enhancements, read and write speeds have seen a progressive improvement.  Heck I have a 5400RPM 8TB Barracuda Pro (It's shucked from an external drive, so it has special firmware restricting it to 5400rpm rather than the 7200rpm that you'd see on the OEM version) that easily exceeds 200MB/s and that's not even 7200rpm.  Even an old 1TB Seagate 7200RPM drive I have hits 130MB/s read and 125MB/s write.

 

The answer to the OPs question is that there is no problem.  He's just at the maximum speed of his Ethernet connection. 1gbps is about 125MB/s but once you factor in overhead and everything else, 112MB/s is a pretty normal speed for a fully saturated gigabit Ethernet connection.