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altis · 23-04-2004, 13:55

This morning I've been doing lots of backing up from a variety of machines to one server. It has a 1GHz Athlon and a 15Krpm SCSI drive. The server has an Allied Telesyn TX-2700 NIC (AMD chipset) and all the workstations have TX-2500s (Realtek chipset). The network is wired and runs at 100mbps through an SMC Barricade switch/router. The transfer rates were as follows:

1) 1GHz Duron, IDE HDD: 581,804,416 bytes in 93 sec = 50 mbps
2) 233MHz Cyrix, IDE HDD: 421,238,016 bytes in 106 sec = 32 mbps
3) 1GHz Athlon, 15K SCSI HDD: 335,179,136 bytes in 43 sec = 62 mbps
4) 500MHz K6/2, IDE HDD: 717,455,616 bytes in 135 sec = 42 mbps
5) 1GHz Athlon, IDE HDD: 439,887,104 bytes in 58 sec = 61 mbps

(mbps = megabit per second)

Backups were compressed to a single file and then copied over to the server. Timings were taken from pressing control-v 'til the copy box disappeared. There was no other network activity. Unfortunately, the Cyrix was also 'playing' a CD drive cleaner at the time.

23-04-2004, 13:55	#39
altis Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Warrington ntl:81304 Altitude: 12m (and falling) Posts: 4,499	Re: Media Centre PCs This morning I've been doing lots of backing up from a variety of machines to one server. It has a 1GHz Athlon and a 15Krpm SCSI drive. The server has an Allied Telesyn TX-2700 NIC (AMD chipset) and all the workstations have TX-2500s (Realtek chipset). The network is wired and runs at 100mbps through an SMC Barricade switch/router. The transfer rates were as follows: 1) 1GHz Duron, IDE HDD: 581,804,416 bytes in 93 sec = 50 mbps 2) 233MHz Cyrix, IDE HDD: 421,238,016 bytes in 106 sec = 32 mbps 3) 1GHz Athlon, 15K SCSI HDD: 335,179,136 bytes in 43 sec = 62 mbps 4) 500MHz K6/2, IDE HDD: 717,455,616 bytes in 135 sec = 42 mbps 5) 1GHz Athlon, IDE HDD: 439,887,104 bytes in 58 sec = 61 mbps (mbps = megabit per second) Backups were compressed to a single file and then copied over to the server. Timings were taken from pressing control-v 'til the copy box disappeared. There was no other network activity. Unfortunately, the Cyrix was also 'playing' a CD drive cleaner at the time.