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USB 3.0 Mass storage devices on Mac Mini 2010

Congo
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Hello!

So I'm not really sure if this is a networking problem/question or a storage problem/question (Its likely both actually)

 

I have an odd problem. So I am using a 1 Gigabyte connection on all my important devices. My desktop using 1 gigabyte and my "NAS/Media Server" (Aka A 2010 Mac Mini). When I transfer files I only get 30-40 mbs a second while transferring files from my desktop to my Mac Mini. What I think is the problem is that Im transferring to USB 2.0 mass storage devices which has a speed cap of like 480 megabytes per second I believe. So those 30-40 mbs I was getting now make sense. So I tried to find ways to increase those speeds, the obvious solution would be to add USB 3.0, doesn't seem like I can on that mac mini. So I'm stuck. How can I get faster mass storage? The only thing I can think of is to remove the optical drive and replace it with a 8tb hard drive or something but thats not cheap and then I can't use my usb hard drives. Any ideas?

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Technically you have firewire 800, which is faster than USB 2.0, but replacing the ODD would still be the best option if you need speed for large file transfers.

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You are confusing Mb (Megabit) and MB (Megabyte).

The NICs on your desktop and Mac Mini will be 1Gb (1Gigabit), which is about 125MB/s (125 Megabytes per second).

 

USB 2 is 480Mb (480 Megabits), or 96MB/s (60 Megabytes per second).

 

And I don't think your Mac Mini will have USB 3

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1 minute ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

You are confusing Mb (Megabit) and MB (Megabyte).

The NICs on your desktop and Mac Mini will be 1Gb (1Gigabit), which is about 125MB/s (125 Megabytes per second).

 

USB 2 is 480Mb (480 Megabits), or 96MB/s (96 Megabytes per second).

 

And I don't think your Mac Mini will have USB 3

480 divided by 8 is 60, not 96 :P

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