Yeah, I wanted to just add the Tom's Hardware article to put some numbers behind it.
The "server grade" hard drive is not performance minded so much as it is reliability minded.
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Aweful "Gigabit" speeds with Time Capsule
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Yeah, I wanted to just add the Tom's Hardware article to put some numbers behind it.
The "server grade" hard drive is not performance minded so much as it is reliability minded.
Well, I tried 2 different set up:
1) Macbook alu 2,4 ghz, 4 gigs of ram, 320 gb HD (Western digital Scorpio black 7200rpm, sata 3 gb, 16 MB of cache) to the hard drive of my TC (500 GB)
2)Same laptop configuration to a Lacie external HD 500 GB with power connector that I connected to the USB of the TC
I got more or less the same speed... between 10 and 15Mbps for single big files.. its its a lot of small files, the speed decrease tremendously...
right, great point. good on apple for using something that is based on reliability then speed (it is most peoples backup drive remember). so yea.
right, so that definitively confirms that its the write/read speeds of the TC drive...
yea smaller files need to be read more and stuff, taking longer to store them.
can I just add, that on my 1TB TC i can get 30mBytes/40mBytes or higher over gigabit ethernet. that may be because of the smaller density of the data on the 1TB drive etcetc.
The issue with speeds transferring to/from the TC disk is not the disk or the network, it's the stupid QOS settings that Apple has placed in the router firmware to cap transfer rates "so you can still surf the web while time machine is running". This was related to me by an Apple store employee when I complained about the transfer rates on my new TC. Unfortunately, those QOS settings are not exposed so you can change or disable them. They effectively render the disk in the TC as useless. 
The issue with speeds transferring to/from the TC disk is not the disk or the network, it's the stupid QOS settings that Apple has placed in the router firmware to cap transfer rates "so you can still surf the web while time machine is running". This was related to me by an Apple store employee when I complained about the transfer rates on my new TC. Unfortunately, those QOS settings are not exposed so you can change or disable them. They effectively render the disk in the TC as useless.
That is something I never considered (as I didn't believe they would do that). If true, they have done a poor implementation of QoS. It should look at the connections and if no other connections are being made except for backup, open the flood gates. In other words, throttle based on percentage, not specific bandwidth.