Post your latest AV purchase(s)......

[alcy]

Bleh...what's the harm in posting pics of a materialistic possession ?! Heh...congrats anyway, enjoy.

 

[anm]

no harm - just lazy. Will try today.

Bleh...what's the harm in posting pics of a materialistic possession ?! Heh...congrats anyway, enjoy.

 

[srenjith]

8nos bluray disc and OPPO BDP 80 player. Bought from Amazon,US..bought to India by my cousin yesterday..no duty on the player.

 

[santhosh]

Congrats Ananth and Renjith:clapping:. Enjoy!!

I bought and installed a D-Link Gigabit adapter DGE-530T on my PC recently. Cost me Rs.840 from a local store. However I am still not impressed with the data transfer speeds, will be trying with a Cat6 cable tonight.

Here is a link:
D-Link 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop PCI Adapter

 

[anm]

thanks buddy. I hope your hard disk is not the bottleneck!
There are some hardware benchmarking software that you may try to ensure if you are getting the speeds over lan. What is the other end with gigabit network?

Congrats Ananth and Renjith:clapping:. Enjoy!!

I bought and installed a D-Link Gigabit adapter DGE-530T on my PC recently. Cost me Rs.840 from a local store. However I am still not impressed with the data transfer speeds, will be trying with a Cat6 cable tonight.

Here is a link:
D-Link 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop PCI Adapter

 

[santhosh]

thanks buddy. I hope your hard disk is not the bottleneck!
There are some hardware benchmarking software that you may try to ensure if you are getting the speeds over lan. What is the other end with gigabit network?

Thanks Ananth. Here is the chain that I am concerned about:
PC<->WRT610N Router<->Etrayz NAS

All three devices mentioned above are Gigabit capable and are currently connected via Cat5e cables. All Hard disks are 3.5 inch SATA. Can't think of any bottlenecks to justify a measly data write of ~12 Mbps. But it seems I am not alone and 12 MBps is supposedly quite good:lol:, there are others who are suffering with a 5MBps transfer rate. As I read more, I hope to understand this behaviour. Reading also reminded me that we are talking Gigabit and not Gigabyte, so have already reduced my expectation to 125 MBps. Now, if my earlier NIC which was 10/100 was doing these similar speeds, why did I buy a Gigabit capable NIC for an additional 20 Mbps extra which I am not gonna get anyways. Should have thought about it before buying..lol.

In the meanwhile, here are the facts:
Max Speeds of various Interfaces
USB 2.0 - 480 MBps
Conventional Sata - 1500 MBps
Gigabit LAN - 1000 MBps
Cat 5e - can do Gigabit
Cat 6 - can do Gigabit easily

For data transfer, it is the Memory that matters more than CPU power. I am currently running 2Gig memory on my Core 2 Duo PC, am sure bumping it up to 4 Gig will improve speeds, but my how much is the question. I checked last night and RAM prices have doubled - an additional 2 Gig costs in excess of 2.2k:sad:. Will try borrowing someone's RAM to see what difference it makes.

I am so fedup of time spent on transferring data at slow speeds. This has made me think about Optic fiber, RAID etc. If nothing works, I am gonna build my own NAS(with features of a regular computer). This way when someone gives me a HDD to copy data, my bottleneck will be the USB and I can avoid the network totally.

I downloaded Iperf last night, but it is all C and I have forgotten C after my college days. Will download and try some network testing tools soon.

 

[anm]

have you tested the write speed of your hdds by removing as many as possible components from the chain?

Thanks Ananth. Here is the chain that I am concerned about:
PC<->WRT610N Router<->Etrayz NAS

All three devices mentioned above are Gigabit capable and are currently connected via Cat5e cables. All Hard disks are 3.5 inch SATA. Can't think of any bottlenecks to justify a measly data write of ~12 Mbps. But it seems I am not alone and 12 MBps is supposedly quite good:lol:, there are others who are suffering with a 5MBps transfer rate. As I read more, I hope to understand this behaviour. Reading also reminded me that we are talking Gigabit and not Gigabyte, so have already reduced my expectation to 125 MBps. Now, if my earlier NIC which was 10/100 was doing these similar speeds, why did I buy a Gigabit capable NIC for an additional 20 Mbps extra which I am not gonna get anyways. Should have thought about it before buying..lol.

In the meanwhile, here are the facts:
Max Speeds of various Interfaces
USB 2.0 - 480 MBps
Conventional Sata - 1500 MBps
Gigabit LAN - 1000 MBps
Cat 5e - can do Gigabit
Cat 6 - can do Gigabit easily

For data transfer, it is the Memory that matters more than CPU power. I am currently running 2Gig memory on my Core 2 Duo PC, am sure bumping it up to 4 Gig will improve speeds, but my how much is the question. I checked last night and RAM prices have doubled - an additional 2 Gig costs in excess of 2.2k:sad:. Will try borrowing someone's RAM to see what difference it makes.

I am so fedup of time spent on transferring data at slow speeds. This has made me think about Optic fiber, RAID etc. If nothing works, I am gonna build my own NAS(with features of a regular computer). This way when someone gives me a HDD to copy data, my bottleneck will be the USB and I can avoid the network totally.

I downloaded Iperf last night, but it is all C and I have forgotten C after my college days. Will download and try some network testing tools soon.

 

[santhosh]

have you tested the write speed of your hdds by removing as many as possible components from the chain?

Ananth, any particular reason why you think it is the HDD?

In the past, I have achieved write speeds of around 40Mbps using Ubuntu and around 25Mbps using Windows but that was when these drives were new. I shall try again after a defrag.

 

[sam9s]

In the meanwhile, here are the facts:
Max Speeds of various Interfaces
USB 2.0 - 480 MBps
Conventional Sata - 1500 MBps
Gigabit LAN - 1000 MBps
Cat 5e - can do Gigabit
Cat 6 - can do Gigabit easily.

Just to rectify the speeds you have mentioned should be in Mbps and not MBps, so USB 2.0 would be 480mbps........in that sence SATA can theoratically reach 3Gbps, not 1500 MBps which become ~ 12 Gbps (which is insane speed for sata). Again gigabit lan is not 1000MBps but 1024Mbps.......

To add more...

Firewire 400 - 400Mbps (seems less than USB 2.0, but performs far better than USB because of the Architucture)

Firewire 800 - 800Mbps

SATA II - 3Gbps

Lastly the boss Super Speed USB 3.0 :: can theoritically max out at 5Gbps!! (even more than SATA II!!), how ever the architecture of the same remains to be seen and so cannot say if it would perform better than Firewire 800 or even eSATA on practical grounds...

 

[sam9s]

All three devices mentioned above are Gigabit capable and are currently connected via Cat5e cables. All Hard disks are 3.5 inch SATA. Can't think of any bottlenecks to justify a measly data write of ~12 Mbps. But it seems I am not alone and 12 MBps is supposedly quite good:lol:, there are others who are suffering with a 5MBps transfer rate. As I read more, I hope to understand this behaviour. Reading also reminded me that we are talking Gigabit and not Gigabyte, so have already reduced my expectation to 125 MBps. Now, if my earlier NIC which was 10/100 was doing these similar speeds, why did I buy a Gigabit capable NIC for an additional 20 Mbps extra which I am not gonna get anyways. Should have thought about it before buying..lol.

Santol dont get me wrong you seem to be a bit confused by your speeds.....you cannot get 12 MBps speeds...not possible......and other also getting 5MBps is not possible.........you must be getting 12Mbps which is equal to around 1.5MBps which seems to be logical over a N router.........
there in no way you can get 125 MBps.....you know what does that mean you are transfering 7.5 GBof data under a minute over a wireless network...........

Also increasing RAM would do nothing for you network speed, there are loads of factors that effect a network....... starting with your HDD, the RPM, cache, buffer all count in a network speed............

 

[cmsajith]

Thanks Ananth. Here is the chain that I am concerned about:
PC<->WRT610N Router<->Etrayz NAS

All three devices mentioned above are Gigabit capable and are currently connected via Cat5e cables. All Hard disks are 3.5 inch SATA. Can't think of any bottlenecks to justify a measly data write of ~12 Mbps. But it seems I am not alone and 12 MBps is supposedly quite good:lol:, there are others who are suffering with a 5MBps transfer rate. As I read more, I hope to understand this behaviour. Reading also reminded me that we are talking Gigabit and not Gigabyte, so have already reduced my expectation to 125 MBps. Now, if my earlier NIC which was 10/100 was doing these similar speeds, why did I buy a Gigabit capable NIC for an additional 20 Mbps extra which I am not gonna get anyways. Should have thought about it before buying..lol.

In the meanwhile, here are the facts:
Max Speeds of various Interfaces
USB 2.0 - 480 MBps
Conventional Sata - 1500 MBps
Gigabit LAN - 1000 MBps
Cat 5e - can do Gigabit
Cat 6 - can do Gigabit easily

For data transfer, it is the Memory that matters more than CPU power. I am currently running 2Gig memory on my Core 2 Duo PC, am sure bumping it up to 4 Gig will improve speeds, but my how much is the question. I checked last night and RAM prices have doubled - an additional 2 Gig costs in excess of 2.2k:sad:. Will try borrowing someone's RAM to see what difference it makes.

I am so fedup of time spent on transferring data at slow speeds. This has made me think about Optic fiber, RAID etc. If nothing works, I am gonna build my own NAS(with features of a regular computer). This way when someone gives me a HDD to copy data, my bottleneck will be the USB and I can avoid the network totally.

I downloaded Iperf last night, but it is all C and I have forgotten C after my college days. Will download and try some network testing tools soon.

I think the culprit is the file system conversion at the NAS side (hope the PC is having NTFS file system). Just try transferring the same file to another PC in the same n/w.

 

[santhosh]

Thanks Sam, you are right. None of those are MBps, they should be Mbps. I read somewhere that Gigabit should be Gb and Gigabyte should be GB. So I thought it should be the same for Megabytes too changed everything that I had typed as Mbps to MBps. I will read that article again tomorrow and edit my post.

 

[santhosh]

Santol dont get me wrong you seem to be a bit confused by your speeds.....you cannot get 12 MBps speeds...not possible......and other also getting 5MBps is not possible.........you must be getting 12Mbps which is equal to around 1.5MBps which seems to be logical over a N router.........
there in no way you can get 125 MBps.....you know what does that mean you are transfering 7.5 GBof data under a minute over a wireless network...........

Also increasing RAM would do nothing for you network speed, there are loads of factors that effect a network....... starting with your HDD, the RPM, cache, buffer all count in a network speed............

Sam, my very basics of units, speeds etc are in shambles right now because I never used to pay attention to the difference between Mbps and MBps:sad:. I am still recovering from the shock:lol:.

From Ashish's reply on the etrayz thread, it seems that it is the etrayz which is the bottleneck and is unable to do speeds beyond 10Mbps. Will do more reading and confirm.

 

[legin]

Hi All
Just purchased the marantz CD 6003 last week
Legin

 

[sam9s]

^^ Pics, price, vender???? man where are your thread ethics....

 

[thekinge]

Purchased the following couple of days back:

1. Onkyo TX-SR608
2. Wharfedale Diamond 10.7, Dia 10.CS, 10.1 for surround, 10.GX sub

Eagerly awaiting delivery today

 

[marsilians]

Thanks Sam, you are right. None of those are MBps, they should be Mbps. I read somewhere that Gigabit should be Gb and Gigabyte should be GB. So I thought it should be the same for Megabytes too changed everything that I had typed as Mbps to MBps. I will read that article again tomorrow and edit my post.

You are correct:

MBps is Mega bytes
Mbps is mega bits

The difference is pretty significant as MBps = 8*Mbps

 

[saurigr8]

Purchase Hofner Semi Acoustic Guitar Yesterday

Model No. - HAS-DC01
Color - Natural .

Sound is too good as compare to my Yamaha & Givson , :yahoo::clapping:

 

[santnai]

Today I ordered Epson 8500UB LCD Projector from Electronics-Expo.com. After 1 hour of bargain in True Indian style I got this projector for $2120 including shipping. It's a very good deal.

 

[sam9s]

Today I ordered Epson 8500UB LCD Projector from Electronics-Expo.com. After 1 hour of bargain in True Indian style I got this projector for $2120 including shipping. It's a very good deal.

They shipping to India???......and is this price including customs???