Which is faster: Internal HD or Networked SSD?

[DockMac]

Taking account transfer rates of HD's and Wireless Networking, which is faster: Internal HD or Networked SSD?

 

[appleguy123]

Depending on your network, I would almost certainly say the internal drive.

 

[IllIllIll]

Internal drive, every time. Doesn't matter if it's SSD, platter-based, or RAID on a network.

 

[motoracer1486]

Wireless is slow. The data read/write speeds and seek time would be severely affected if you went that route.

 

[IllIllIll]

Doesn't matter if it's wireless or wired gigabit ethernet. A networked SSD drive will still be slower either way.

 

[wrinkster22]

internal. Unless you have superman wifi that is like 500gb/s

 

[dusk007]

Even 1Gb/s LAN (100MB/s) has troubles competing with modern 2.5" internal drives.
WiFi is a lot slower than that LAN.
If you only request small files in a random manner the Wifi SSD might still win but I really cannot imagine any usage where this might be the case and worth the money.

 

[DockMac]

Thanks everyone.

I was thinking of putting some SSD's on a network, to be used wireless by my notebook(s), but after this thread, it would seem pointless to do, as there would be no performance gain.

I may just go the internal SSD route.

 

[takeshi74]

Taking account transfer rates of HD's and Wireless Networking, which is faster: Internal HD or Networked SSD?

You can easily answer this yourself with some quick Google searches. Best case with 802.11n is 600Mb/s or 75MB/s (8b = 1B). Consider that SATA 1.0 drives have a limit of 1.5Gb/s, or 150MB/s.

 

[DockMac]

Yeah, that is where I get lost. There is the theoretical output, and then real world output, of which I can't tell which is which, nor do I know how to calculate it.