[TWohlford]

the wire’s speed might be that much, but the hard drives at either end, not to mention antivirus and such, is the bottleneck.

[chuckles]

Both HD’s are solid state running at Sata 1 speeds.

[usconservative]

the wire’s speed might be that much, but the hard drives at either end, not to mention antivirus and such, is the bottleneck.

This. This right here. Speed from one HDD to another is impacted by a number of factors, including resources available on the sending and receiving computer to send, receive, ack and write data from one hdd to another.