arnprasad
Well-Known Member
Hi,
As posted in another thread, I bought a WD EX2 8TB so that I can use the RAID 1 configuration to save all my files. Now all my files are on desktop and totals around a TB. Now I have connected by WD to my router and mapped it as an alphabet (Z drive) on my desktop. When I use windows explorer to copy paste files from C to Z drive, I see that the speed is 11 MBps and it shows 24 hours+ to copy. Since both my desktop and WD have USB3 slots, I bought a male to male cable hoping the speeds will go up multiple times - but don't see any difference in the speeds as it still seems to trf files over wifi.
I have googled and there are tons of sites giving solutions from directly connecting the WD to desktop via an Ethernet cable and using static IPs and other such ideas and I am totally lost. I have a hathway connection and there are some sites suggesting that typically the routers are the reason its this slow.
One would have thought that by investing in the latest hardware technology like USB 3, one would he achieving at least 100s of MBps or GB ps and its very frustrating to see such speeds for simple copying of files between two sets of hardware.
Any simple free ideas to trf the 1TB in 2-3 hours? with power failures and family switching off the power switch at nights - somehow I don't feel comfortable leaving the transfer process a 24 hour window. Thx
In my task manager I can see under 'network' it shows 95-97% showing 90 mbps...which is equal to my explorers 11 MPBS..so that makes sense but what is the limiting factor that is limiting it to this rate of transfer?
As posted in another thread, I bought a WD EX2 8TB so that I can use the RAID 1 configuration to save all my files. Now all my files are on desktop and totals around a TB. Now I have connected by WD to my router and mapped it as an alphabet (Z drive) on my desktop. When I use windows explorer to copy paste files from C to Z drive, I see that the speed is 11 MBps and it shows 24 hours+ to copy. Since both my desktop and WD have USB3 slots, I bought a male to male cable hoping the speeds will go up multiple times - but don't see any difference in the speeds as it still seems to trf files over wifi.
I have googled and there are tons of sites giving solutions from directly connecting the WD to desktop via an Ethernet cable and using static IPs and other such ideas and I am totally lost. I have a hathway connection and there are some sites suggesting that typically the routers are the reason its this slow.
One would have thought that by investing in the latest hardware technology like USB 3, one would he achieving at least 100s of MBps or GB ps and its very frustrating to see such speeds for simple copying of files between two sets of hardware.
Any simple free ideas to trf the 1TB in 2-3 hours? with power failures and family switching off the power switch at nights - somehow I don't feel comfortable leaving the transfer process a 24 hour window. Thx
In my task manager I can see under 'network' it shows 95-97% showing 90 mbps...which is equal to my explorers 11 MPBS..so that makes sense but what is the limiting factor that is limiting it to this rate of transfer?