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Transfer Rate for Clients and Servers on Two 100Base-T Ethernet Subnets

In this configuration, you can move twice as much data at the 36 GB per hour 100Base-T data rate. To back up 1 Terabyte of data, each subnet has to handle only 500 GB, so the operation takes 14 hours. Some performance is lost because the network cannot keep the media drives in each library streaming along at their combined 36 GB per hour optimum speed.