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Maximizing Data transfer speeds over LAN and/or PC to PC

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by bmadams

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Greetings,
I have a customer that creates very large video files. They need to move them from PC to PC in house. They have 4 PCs running through a 10/100 switch. I want to advise them of the fastest hardware configuration to do this. I built a table of all possible components and their transfer speeds (ie SATA, SATA2, IDE, USB, 10/100, Wireless etc.) and then looked at options to utilize these components. Each configuration is limited by the slowest component...such as: using an external SATA2 drive (2.4 Gbit/s) with a USB2 interface, physically moved between PCs, would be limited by the USB2 max transfer rate of 480 Mbit/s.
Here is my big question: I want to add a Gigabit switch, connected to each PC with a Gigabit PCI card. Wouldn't this be limited by the PCI slot max speed and never see the Gigabit transfer speed?
Sorry for the long post, thanks for your feedback...BA

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by charliespencer

Did you look at removable internal SATA2 drives? I know they exist for IDE. You mount a case in the bay to hold the drive, the case connects to the controller and power, and you slide the drive in and out. This would allow you the portability of the external drive, and the SATA2 speed instead of the USB2 speed of the external model. Just a thought.

How you gonna back the suckers up? That's where you need to consider both data transfer and media file write speeds.

by bmadams

Thats an idea to consider. I know the IDE version of the removable bay. One thing would be that everybody would need to have SATA2 support on the MB or I would have to add PCI cards...but wouldn't that also limit all to the PCI slot max speed....same issue, same question

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