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Why is USB-C full duplex?

USB-C has 4 data lanes. Two in each direction. My question is, why is this done? USB4, for example, is 40Gbps nominally, but only half those lanes are used if you are copying files to a disk. Use all ...
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How does my spinning HDD reach 320 MB/s?

While creating an image of a (mostly empty) 1TB spinning hard disk, I was expecting a read speed of around 120 MB/s, and on the first blocks it was like that, but after that, most of the time it was ...
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smartctl + how to found the XXX MBps throughput on disk

we want to know - How fast can a single storage volume read or write, in Megabytes per second for example - 125MBps throughput. so we used the smartctl command in order to capture the XXXMBps ...
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iperf3 asymmetric throughput on Dell PowerEdge T110 II

Dell PowerEdge T110 II server (Broadcom BCM5722 using tg3 driver, Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz, Almalinux 8.5) has asymmetric iperf3 performance. When it is the server iperf3 tests at 940 ...
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How to run iperf3 throughput test for multiple client interfaces on same machine?

I'm trying to run a throughput stress test from a machine that has multiple Ethernet interfaces to another machine with the same number of Ethernet interfaces. E.g. machine1.ethA.192.168.1.1 <-> ...
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How to make AWS EFS work fast? (looks like a bug)

I am copying (by DataSync) from one EFS to another EFS (both Provisioned (1024 MiB/s)) at 14.57 MiB/s. Both systems are in the same subnet in the US. (Moreover, when I tried to change them back to ...
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Why is SSD peak power drain higher for read than write?

The graphs on this page show that the Crucial MX500 SSD has a peak measured power draws of: Read - 2.4W Write - 2.0W Why would sustained random reads draw more power than sustained random writes?
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Manipulating MTU size in IPTables with mangle for use with OpenVPN

I am looking for any and all pointers in regards to modifying or resetting MTU size with the mangle table in iptables. Specifically where in the iptables flow is it more efficient to modify MTU to ...
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Why don't some top-end single-actuator disk drives use more than one head at a time to read or write data? [duplicate]

I was watching this talk [1] where two engineers from Seagate were presenting their findings of using their newly-developed MACH.2 multi-actuator drives [2] as part of ZFS pools. In some cases, they ...
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Bandwidth in communication and in physics... Faster WIFI speed?

While trying to increase the speed of my internet, I just realized how Bandwidth is understood differently in the networking world. That makes me kind of confused with why increasing a Wifi Bandwidth ...
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WAP: Throughput & MU-MIMO

I have several questions related to the behavior & throughput of a WAP, hope you can guide me in the right direction or give me some insights. I have a WAP (Unifi nanoHD), which is mainly aimed ...
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Monitoring performance/throughput of USB-C

I've got a Lenovo laptop that supports USB type-c docking and I've got a Thunderbolt 3 docking station along. I know that this means that I'll only get the speed of USB 3.1 (gen 2). Hooking up two ...
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Slow rsync Transfer Speed over Wi-Fi on OpenWRT

I have a USB HDD successfully mounted on my Linksys WRT1900ACS (OpenWRT installed). Laptop is a macbook (MacOS). Both router and Mac have rsync 3.1.3 installed. File system on USB HDD is ext4. When ...
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Limited Download Throughput on single Desktop PC

So I just moved into a new home and have been setting up the internet here, but it seems like my desktop does not like the new internet environment. Originally, I tested to see if it was the Ubiquiti ...
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Puzzling network throughput behavior to my home

I wonder if anyone can suggest why I see this puzzling behavior: When downloading something large to my home (via Comcast), I get very slow throughput (e.g. 12 Mbits/s). Then, if I start a speed test ...
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