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    Normal Data Transfer Speed?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Tmo, Feb 4, 2009.

  1. Tmo

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    So I have an Asus M50sv with a new 7200 rpm Momentus 320 GB harddrive. I have a 30 GB partition with XP on it and a 250GB Primary Partition I created for data with XP's disk manager. I transferred about 20 GB worth of data from the XP partition to the data and was wondering if 15 -20 min is normal time for this size of transfer?
     
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    20 GB = 20 480 MB, 18 mins = 1080 seconds.
    20480/1080 = ~20MB/s write. since it has to read and write at the same time, 20*2 = 40, which is about right (not factoring in seek times and head movement)
     
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    Thanks for your help
     
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    Disk to same Disk Read/Writes aren't going to be fast. If you were going Disk to Different Disk, you would get higher rates, but you're probably still limited to the PCIe bus on your lappy. I think I get 35 to 40MB speeds usng eSATA from local HDD (non OS Drive) to external HDD
     
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    if anything, you would be limited by the SATA bus. but at 3Gb/s nominal (1.5 nominal for sata I), i hardly think that would be the case.
     
    thalanix, Feb 7, 2009
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