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Re: Is a Windows Android drive letter inherently faster or slower than USB copies?

From Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.microsoft.windows, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Is a Windows Android drive letter inherently faster or slower than USB copies?
Date 2022-09-02 11:39 +0100
Message-ID <jne4rqFjm4mU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <tesevd$13eb$1@gioia.aioe.org>

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On 02/09/2022 09:31, Andy Burnelli wrote:

> Is a Windows Android drive letter inherently faster/slower than USB copies?
> 
> I explained to some friends that I use webdav servers to mount Android file
> systems onto Windows as a "drive letter" over Wi-Fi, while they instead use
> USB cable to connect Android file systems to Windows as a "network drive".
> 
> a. Drive Letter (over Wi-Fi) b. Network Drive (over USB)
> 
> They need to make backups of a dozen or more Android phones, where they
> asked me which is faster - the Wi-Fi drive letter or the USB connection.
> 
> I don't know. They're both fast enough for me.
> 
> Is there any inherent reason why one would be faster/slower than the other?

Presume the USB connection is USB2.0? therefore theoretical max of 480Mbps, but 
in practice nowhere near that

What spec of WiFi? 802.11ac especially with MIMO could beat USB if the files are 
large (rather than a large number of tiny files) but 802.11n might struggle?

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Is a Windows Android drive letter inherently faster or slower than USB copies? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-09-02 09:31 +0100
  Re: Is a Windows Android drive letter inherently faster or slower than USB copies? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-09-02 11:39 +0100
    Re: Is a Windows Android drive letter inherently faster or slower than USB copies? sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2022-09-02 09:56 -0700
      Re: Is a Windows Android drive letter inherently faster or slower   than USB copies? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-09-06 23:25 +0100

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