Network and Storage Devices Throughput Chart
With all of the different storage and network devices
that surround our day to day life, understanding these
devices data transfer speeds can be somewhat confusing.
Think about trying to identify your weakest link
in the a chain that starts with an external USB hard
drive (or a flash drive) that's connected to a 802.11g
wifi router, can you quickly come up with an answer of
where's the bottle neck in that chain , is it the router
or the storage devices ? .
Well, the following chart should give you an idea
understanding different devices, protocols and
interfaces maximum throughput speeds. Though these
numbers can fluctuate (mostly for worse, but sometimes
for the better) due to different kind of factors such as
OS overhead (or caching and optimization) , multiple
users or processes and so on , the chart can still serve
to provide basic information on the theoretical
throughput different devices and protocols can get
to..
Enjoy.
Link to the full size chart
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sata#SATA_revision_1.0_.28SATA_1.5_Gbit.2Fs.29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usbhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usb_3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11
http://mashable.com/2011/09/21/fastest-download-speeds-infographic/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220434/Thunderbolt_vs._SuperSpeed_USB_3.0
Icons:
http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/gallery2/?./Icons/devices/drive-harddisk-3.png
