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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I've tried all the local network solutions mentioned in this thread. One downside of them is that they tend to be slow....
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surely that depends on your LAN.
With Gigabyte ports on PCs & a Gigabyte Switch , I can move big files ( films, TV shows) at 50 - 100Mbs, pretty much same speed as going between hard drives within the same PC. A lot of small files will be slower but a typical calibre sync takes under a minute including starting up the utility.
I can push ~10GB of video to a plex server , which is on a USB3 drive connected to an Nvidia Shield TV in just a few minutes, with windows showing transfer speed of about 50Mbs
without having Gb connects throughout the chain that 50-100 drops to 10 at best. I have not benchmarked wifi but if a target laptop has a wifi 5Gz ac card or dongle and is nearby [ strong signal] , that should easily and quickly sync a hundred books in the time it take you to make a cup of coffee.
I agree that dropbox is also quite nifty - much faster than google drive, and I got mine to the 15GB max of free storage via referrals which is all I need. One think to be wary of with Dropbox that it is allegedly very hard to cancel a paid+ recurring payment dropbox plan and they never give refunds, ever, so they are not a company I would give my credit card details to