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File Copying Olympics: How File Size Impacts the Race for Performance Gold


unity to evaluate the new U34 Bolt from Oyen, and I was only disappointed that this device doesn't literally scream or burn a hole through the desk. While delivering a stunning 3.1GB/s of sustained throughput, it was completely silent and no warmer than a cup of coffee (120°F/49°C).

I excluded a third competitor that was simply a skin on top of rsync because the max throughput it achieved to the Bolt was just 211MB/s; its 10-15X longer run times blow out the scale of the chart. The source data sets reside on the internal NVMe storage, the destination is an 8TB Oyen U34 Bolt attached via a Thunderbolt 4 cable. But the startup disk is anemic in my MacBook Air, and the smaller data set is still large enough to see the effects of filesystem and copier performance.

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