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Gigabit Ethernet

I have cat6 cable ran through the whole building.
Net gear Pro safe Gigabit switch JGS524F
Gigabit nics in all the computers
Dell powervault MD1000 15k hard drives raid 10

When I transfer files to across the network i get about 40% to 45% network utilization according to windows network monitoring and the transfer speed is about 34-43MB/sec.  I'm not sure if it is normal to get under 50% usage over the gigabit lan.  What can I do to increase this?
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So it's fair to say adding a managed switch would not help any then?
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Thanks for the advise guys. I already have sata 10k drives in most of the clients so I guess I will leave it as is for now.