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    What's the fastest port available on the M1530?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by informer, Jul 24, 2008.

  1. informer

    informer Notebook Enthusiast

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    I realise that the XPS does not come with a gigabit ethernet, so what is the fastest port for copying/reading between connected devices such as a hard drive or another computer?
     
    informer, Jul 24, 2008
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    USB or firewire for the external hard drive. I hope they put esata on the next version. The ethernet would be 100mbit though you can get wireless N which would be faster.
     
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    I would have thought they support 1gb ethernet. My M1730 does.


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    Unfortunately Dell skimped in that area. Note sure why, everything else has gigabit standard these days.
     
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    Some guys put express cards with Gigabit Ethernet in their XPS and then using jumbo frames achieve transfer rates >= 50MB/s.
     
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    eSATA for external drives
     
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    Thanks for the replies.

    What matters not what Dell puts into their next series of notebooks, but what mine can do now.

    It seems that the fastest possible connection is via expresscard and eSata since sata is faster than giganet. Next would be USB 2.0 then firewire.
     
    informer, Jul 25, 2008
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    Yep, the ExpressCard has throughput of something like 2.5Gbps when maxed out so thats the only limit from the laptop.
     
    neonkoala, Jul 25, 2008
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    For hard drives firewire is typically faster than USB 2.0
     
    jwtarbaj, Jul 25, 2008
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