HDD write speed

[Killertide]

Hey everyone.

I'm working on setting some files on my secondary HDDs, from a laptop to a desktop, using wi-fi to link them up, but it feels slow, it's wrighting at 1.40Mbs/s top.

My secondary drives are 2 mechanical HDDs, Western Digital Blue, 1TB, 7200RPM with 64Mgbs cache. The wi-fi can handle 150Mbs/s so... Is this wrigt speed slow or normal?

Running Windows 10 64Bits btw, everything is updated, including BIOS.

Any help would be most welcome

 

[Sasqui]

Really sounds like WiFi is your bottleneck... either the adapter or router. Hard to say without knowing your topology (connection map)

 

[EarthDog]

Writing.

What is your internet speed? Its going to be WAY slower than the hdd can transfer.

 

[phanbuey]

yeah if it is over wifi... what is your connection speed?

 

[newtekie1]

The wireless might be rated for a maximum of 150Mb/s, but I guarantee you aren't getting that.

If Windows 10 is saying you are only getting 1.4MB/s, that is actually 11.2Mb/s, which is pretty typical of a cheap wireless setup.

 

[EarthDog]

Yup, a firehose may be able to handle 150 GPM flow, but if the source can only send out 1.5 GPM..............it doesn't make it go faster.

 

[Killertide]

Internet is fiber optics set to 200Mbs/s, just ran speed test, DL at 87Mbs/s, UPL at 76Mbs/s and 77 ping.

EDIT: Sry, it's 87Mbs/s download XD

 

[newtekie1]

Internet is fiber optics set to 200Mbs/s, just ran speed test, DL at 87Mbs/s, UPL at 76Mbs/s and 77 ping.

EDIT: Sry, it's 87Mbs/s download XD

Your internet speed doesn't matter here.

 

[MrGenius]

Bingo!^^^ Intranet vs. internet.

 

[Killertide]

Yeah, I guessed that much, so I bugged my neighbour for his wifi adaptor and problem solved ( till I return it lol ), it's running close to 3Mbs/s, still slow but better.

Will have to get a better one for myself but the laptop is old ( 5 year old Vaio ) so it may be from that end aswell, and there I really cant do much, need bigger USB pen drives to use, rather the wifi.

 

[MrGenius]

Much better to have all the drives plugged into the same motherboard. You can do that you know?

 

[Killertide]

Much better to have all the drives plugged into the same motherboard. You can do that you know?

I know I can use USB, but I need a bridged one ( dont have it ), what are the other ways?

 

[MrGenius]

 

[Killertide]

yeah... That one is obvious but meh, I'll do that next time lol, too laisy to do that now

 

[Killertide]

Can I down vote my post?

EDIT: Ya know, maybe that is a better option than some of the piss and vinegar we've seen lately. Its enough to voice an opinion on garbage, but not post (thumbs up/down on posts).

?!

Following the advice on removing the laptop's hdd, I got into a world of troble... After placing the hdd back into the laptop, nothing works, other then the OS.

Solved one problem, found another.

 

[MrGenius]

Hmmm...not good. Unless you think you've got it covered. The first thing I would try is a system restore. If you can't get into safe-mode, or if safe-mode doesn't work any better, you can try booting from the installation media and system restoring from there.

 

[lorraine walsh]

Internet is fiber optics set to 200Mbs/s, just ran speed test, DL at 87Mbs/s, UPL at 76Mbs/s and 77 ping.

EDIT: Sry, it's 87Mbs/s download XD

Dude if its your wifi speed, then it should have ran way faster. You need a subsititue solution, I have seen this comment above one dude was saying removing the laptop's hdd. Thats way more trouble.

What do you think about USB transfer!

 

[Killertide]

Thx Lorraine, I did that till my order came in, just bought a 250Gbt pen drive but apparently there's some sort of bug on windows that downgrades usb transfer, so I'll stick with the cable.

 

[lorraine walsh]

Thx Lorraine, I did that till my order came in, just bought a 250Gbt pen drive but apparently there's some sort of bug on windows that downgrades usb transfer, so I'll stick with the cable.

250Gbt pen drive sounds awesome. If you can show a picture.

 

[Athlonite]

Just plug the laptop into the router using a cable WIFI is never going to be a stable solution if there is alot of other noise from other devices from say phones tablets TV's oh don't forget the microwave oh and your wan speed (ie: connection to the internet) will have absolutely no impact on the LAN speed that all comes down to the router and how good it is and how good are the NIC's in each PC

I've seen so called gigabit nics perform no better than an 100mbps nic because they're cheeap n nasty

 

[Frick]

I've seen so called gigabit nics perform no better than an 100mbps nic because they're cheeap n nasty

This I don't believe, unless you mean wireless.

 

[Killertide]

Just plug the laptop into the router using a cable WIFI is never going to be a stable solution if there is alot of other noise from other devices from say phones tablets TV's oh don't forget the microwave oh and your wan speed (ie: connection to the internet) will have absolutely no impact on the LAN speed that all comes down to the router and how good it is and how good are the NIC's in each PC

I've seen so called gigabit nics perform no better than an 100mbps nic because they're cheeap n nasty

Did that but either the cable or the laptop had the router plug dead cause it doesnt work. The laptop still works great but it has been repaired alot of times, so I'm not really surprised it was the laptop.

EDIT: Allways worked with Gigabite, never had an issue, they advertise only what they sell and you pay for that only, unlike alot of other brands that say they're the best at whatever is they do. I would never trade my K5 for an Asus for example, worst costumer support of all and the stuff they're selling isn't that good, but that's my opinion anyway

@lorraire walsh
It broke a few days in lol, but they,re sending me a new one, just grabbed that pic from the web to show you

 

[SnakeDoctor]

Just use a lan cable with static ip address 10mbs - 100mbs

 

[lorraine walsh]

Did that but either the cable or the laptop had the router plug dead cause it doesnt work. The laptop still works great but it has been repaired alot of times, so I'm not really surprised it was the laptop.

EDIT: Allways worked with Gigabite, never had an issue, they advertise only what they sell and you pay for that only, unlike alot of other brands that say they're the best at whatever is they do. I would never trade my K5 for an Asus for example, worst costumer support of all and the stuff they're selling isn't that good, but that's my opinion anyway

@lorraire walshView attachment 91947
It broke a few days in lol, but they,re sending me a new one, just grabbed that pic from the web to show you

Man with this wire, you work should be done. I dont see why not.

 

[R00kie]

You could also create a local network between these 2 machines, connect them both with a LAN cable and you'll get the full transfer speeds depending on the NIC capabilities.