Gigabit network faster... much faster than SATAII transfers

L31mr0d

Just wondering if this is normal. When moving large ISO's between 2 disks internal to my PC I get around ~70MB/s. But when transferring the same files over my gigabit network between 2 PC's I'm getting around 95MB/s

What gives? Is it the controller being overloaded? Vistas crap data transfer speeds?

Wondering if there's a way to fix this, or should I just move all my internal drives into a gigabit NAS?

PogMoThoin

L31mr0d wrote: »

Vistas crap data transfer speeds?

I've a Vista, Xp and linux setup with a linux home server and my best speeds are from Xp, seconded by linux, then Vista. I get 60+MB/s from Xp, 45MB/s from linux and 22MB/s from Vista moving the same file over a gigabit network

L31mr0d

PogMoThoin wrote: »

22MB/s from Vista moving the same file over a gigabit network

thing is I'm getting 95MB/s transfer speeds over the gigabit network in Vista (I have IPv6 and QoS disabled and on the NIC, "Jumbo Packets" set to 9014 bytes and "speed and dublex" forced to 1000Mbps Full duplex) I'm also using all Cat6 cables.

The network isn't the issue, I'm getting great speeds from it. The odd thing is the disk transfers over the SATA controller, I just transferred a few more ISO's there for backup and it didn't break 50MB/s.

Ghost Train

PogMoThoin wrote: »

I've a Vista, Xp and linux setup with a linux home server and my best speeds are from Xp, seconded by linux, then Vista. I get 60+MB/s from Xp, 45MB/s from linux and 22MB/s from Vista moving the same file over a gigabit network

theres a fix for vistas network speed problem(bug)

http://apcmag.com/how_to_fix_vistas_network_bottlenecks.htm

BrokenArrows

Ghost Train wrote: »

theres a fix for vistas network speed problem(bug)

http://apcmag.com/how_to_fix_vistas_network_bottlenecks.htm

the problem isn't with his network. thats working fine.

are you positive your transferring it between two separate harddrives and not two partitioned drives?

L31mr0d

BrokenArrows wrote: »

the problem isn't with his network. thats working fine.

are you positive your transferring it between two separate harddrives and not two partitioned drives?

yeah 2 separate drives. Its the exact same problem on both of my Vista PC's, ones running x64 and the other x32. The transfer speeds between physical drives is abysmal.

Both PC's have completely different drives by different manufacturers and have completely different motherboards and SATA controllers. The only thing they have in common is Vista

BrokenArrows

L31mr0d wrote: »

yeah 2 separate drives. Its the exact same problem on both of my Vista PC's, ones running x64 and the other x32. The transfer speeds between physical drives is abysmal.

Both PC's have completely different drives by different manufacturers and have completely different motherboards and SATA controllers. The only thing they have in common is Vista

not sure if this would cause an issue or not but do you have something inbetween the two HD's

examples HD -> DVD drive -> HD all on the same cable.

PogMoThoin

BrokenArrows wrote: »

not sure if this would cause an issue or not but do you have something inbetween the two HD's

examples HD -> DVD drive -> HD all on the same cable.

They're Sata so thats not the issue, in fact its a long time since I came across ide hd's

uberpixie

in a previous horrible tech support job, I supported Vista from launch day for very ungrateful home users.

I worked with a lot of eastern european lads and an english amiga nutjob who all loved total commander.

They of course went off and installed it on vista the first chance they got and they noticed that when total commander was installed: local file tranfers and network transfers were much faster. Even copying a file from the desktop to a different folder on the same harddrive was much faster.

http://www.ghisler.com/
(you can a 30 day shareware verson here)

I would give it a go and see if there is any difference. (I'm still on XP myself so can't Test )

I would reckon the issue is with Vista's version of explorer and not your hardware.

leninbenjamin

L31mr0d wrote: »

yeah 2 separate drives. Its the exact same problem on both of my Vista PC's, ones running x64 and the other x32. The transfer speeds between physical drives is abysmal.

Both PC's have completely different drives by different manufacturers and have completely different motherboards and SATA controllers. The only thing they have in common is Vista

Hmmm... i have two HDs in my laptop running Vista and also find them incredibly slow to write between. i always just assumed it was a quirk of the hardware...