Not Getting Gigabit Speeds

imb4tman

imb4tman

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Not sure where I've gone wrong but my file transfers are peaking at 120mbs. Everything is hooked up via a gigabit switch, I'm using CAT6 cables. All motherboards support gigabit. I'm using Win7 and WHS.

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Both are showing 1000 but I'm just not getting the speed.
 
If your getting 120mb's , and by that do you mean 120 megabytes, that is very close to the maximum speed of gigabit, you need to remember you will be bottle necked, by the slowest link and in most cases this is the HD/SSD
 
jaybee said:
How are you measuring the speed?
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mraerosmith1981 said:
If your getting 120mb's , and by that do you mean 120 megabytes, that is very close to the maximum speed of gigabit, you need to remember you will be bottle necked, by the slowest link and in most cases this is the HD/SSD
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My servers HDD's are just standard 7200's. I guess I was just expecting too much.
 
127MB/sec is exceptional for a 1gbit link and 'standard' 7200rpm drives, given that 128MB/sec is the theoretical maximum for a Gbit connection and most drives can't sustain speeds that high anyway.

Personally I'd be happy with anyone over 100MB/sec.
 
Just remember, 1 gigabit is 1/8 of a GigaBYTE.
There are 8 bits in a byte, and 1 gigabyte = 1 073 741 824 bytes. Therefore, 1 GigaBIT, is approximately an eighth of a GigaBYTE.
So your 127 MegaBYTE per second multiplied by 8 is 1016 MegaBITS, or around 1 GigaBIT


People don't seem to get this these days :/
 
I don't believe them speeds. Hes over max link speed with 0% overhead. If it was like 117 then id believe it. Run a jperf plz.

Also isnt link speed 125MB/s? Transmission bit rate is based on decimal powers per second in this case, 1 billion bits per second.. Therefore 125MB/s. Im calling Windows BS.
 
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