05-31-2008, 07:44 PM
[quote guitarist][quote Stavs]
Theoretically, my speed to donload to the TC should be the same as to the MBP, right?
No. Not necessarily. It certainly would be nice if a drive residing on a network performed at identical download/write speeds to your own computer. But I think wireless network performance is not the only factor in the amount of time it takes data to be downloaded and written onto a target network drive. There may be some other overhead involved.
Your computer has a processor and a hard drive controller that plays a role in read/write speed. I don't know what the Time Capsule has, but I think besides downloading (network performance) the data, the device (Time Capsule) you're downloading to has to govern it and write it.
What about a true NAS device? Do you think it would give better performance?
Theoretically, my speed to donload to the TC should be the same as to the MBP, right?
No. Not necessarily. It certainly would be nice if a drive residing on a network performed at identical download/write speeds to your own computer. But I think wireless network performance is not the only factor in the amount of time it takes data to be downloaded and written onto a target network drive. There may be some other overhead involved.
Your computer has a processor and a hard drive controller that plays a role in read/write speed. I don't know what the Time Capsule has, but I think besides downloading (network performance) the data, the device (Time Capsule) you're downloading to has to govern it and write it.
What about a true NAS device? Do you think it would give better performance?