[Samba] Expected transfer rate of samba, SATA over gigabit to SATA

[Alan Hodgson]

On Tuesday 25 March 2008, darlingm <darlingm at gmail.com> wrote:
> hdparm only showed a 256Mbit/sec (32MB/sec) read rate from -- and the new
> server runs (currently) a single SATA drive which hdparm shows a
> 640Mbit/sec (80MB/sec) read rate from, just like the client's hdparm
> results on a SATA drive.

A single modern SATA drive can probably write ~40-50 MB per sec (large 
sequential writes). But if it's busy doing anything else that will slow 
dramatically.

I find Windows file transfers to vary dramatically in speed, even within a 
local system, so I would expect your bottleneck to be there.