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It's just what I've experienced myself when copying a lot of files. E.g. "add 50k photos from network drive to Photos" or "perform initial Time Machine backup".
by m_eiman 8y ago
It's just what I've experienced myself when copying a lot of files. E.g. "add 50k photos from network drive to Photos" or "perform initial Time Machine backup". Over cable I'd say it's at least twice as fast, haven't done any measurements though.
- mmt 8y agoThat also raises the question of if it's implementation-dependent (especially if Apple optimizes AFP over everything else), rather than generally applicable to SMB, not that this would negate the validity of the example. > Over cable I'd say it's at least twice as fast That could be be because of the bandwidth difference, if wireless isn't 802.11ac (or if the cable isn't 100Mb/s). Is it also the case that copying a single file of comparable size doesn't show the same speedup?