Thread: Discussion - Backups, Synchronisation, Networks etc
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Old 10-11-2018, 01:26 PM   #5
Sirtel
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
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
I only have wifi (laptop and tablet, no desktop), so the speed is not that fast. Slower than Dropbox, anyway. Of course it's not so slow as to be unusable, but as I use Dropbox for back-up anyway it's just more convenient for syncing too. (And no, of course Dropbox is not my only way of making back-ups. It's just an additional way).

I use PayPal with Dropbox. It's easy to cancel a recurring payment with PayPal.
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