Here’s another quick tip for tonight.<\/p>\n
These days, we have all sorts of interfaces in our computers: wired Ethernet, Wi-Fi, USB, Firewire, eSATA, Bluetooth just to name a few. However, sometimes the most convenient interface won’t be the quickest.<\/p>\n
For instance, when I was transferring all the data from the old drives to the new drives in my Windows Home Server I started using a hard drive dock. What I didn’t realise at the time was I was attempting to do some heavy duty data transfers over USB – not the brightest idea (even if I was going to leave it going overnight). Eventually, I caught on that moving several terabytes of data would probably be best done by opening up the computer and hooking the drive up inside using a much faster SATA interface.<\/p>\n
Similarly, when the new MacBook Air arrived transferring the data over Wi-Fi from the MacBook Pro was going to be slower than hooking one or both of them up with a cable to the network. Whilst using Wi-Fi would have kept the room clear of cable clutter it would have been much slower compared to 100Mbps or 1Gbps Ethernet.<\/p>\n
Again, there are trade offs but sometimes you just need to take a hit on convenience for the sake of speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s another quick tip for tonight. These days, we have all sorts of interfaces in our computers: wired Ethernet, Wi-Fi, USB, Firewire, eSATA, Bluetooth just to name a few. However, sometimes the most convenient interface won’t be the quickest. For instance, when I was transferring all the data from the old drives to the new … <\/p>\n