NAS and file transfers
Network speed calculator
Translate 1, 2.5, 5, or 10 GbE into practical throughput and an understandable transfer-time estimate.
Your inputs
Calculated result
293.75 MB/s practical
At 94% link efficiency, a 100 GB transfer takes approximately 5 min 40 sec. Storage speed, protocol overhead, and file count can reduce real performance.
Link rate
2.5 GbE
Theoretical
312.5 MB/s
Transfer time
5 min 40 sec
How to use this result
- • Eight network megabits equal one theoretical megabyte per second.
- • The default 94% efficiency accounts for ordinary protocol overhead, not slow storage.
- • Many small files can transfer much more slowly than one large sequential file.