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Copying files between systems very slow.

I have 2 systems both win7. They are on the same netgear fs105 switch. The network cards are set to autonegotiate.

Now I rip my bluray movies and move them from one system to another by just copy and paste.  Sometime these folder can be about 20 - 30gb. I usually see when coping I would get upwards of about 100mb/second. But sometimes I would get 20-30mb/sec. By watching the details in the copy I would see it copying a very large file and doing 30mb/sec, so I know it's not happening because it's copying multiple small files.

anyway to figure out why I'll get 100mg/sec or more at time and other times it's very slow. I have other devices on the same switch, but I check and they are in use when it slows down.
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Sorry, it's  gs105. Both systems show they are connected at 1gb speeds.
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Same principle would apply  to a GS105
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It depends on a few factors,

1,  How old are your PCs?   check to see how busy the disks are  ( look in resource manager)
2,  Any AV running that is scanning new files?
3,  the max speed you will get is around 70-80MB/s      
4,  Using on-board network cards?  

For home grade hardware 30-50MB/s  (300-500 gigabit) is acceptable
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with many small files the file open command (which is used for each file) is a known relatively slow operation.
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