Establishing a 10G connection between two CAD systems
Establishing a 10G connection between two CAD systems
Hello, I run a small business with two designers who use Autodesk Inventor. Since only two people access the system, we don’t need a vault—just a way to share files from one computer. I tried this before with a gigabit connection, but it was very slow. For bigger assemblies you’d have to wait over a minute just to save files. I believe the issue was mainly about latency, not just connection speed. The biggest file sizes are around 70kb to 11Mb, so keeping copies on each machine and using a sync program is risky because errors can happen. Would a 10 gigabit connection help? I’m curious about better hardware options. I saw one of Linus’s videos on 100 gigabit, but it’s expensive and might not solve my problems. Another idea is setting up two computers together with a direct network link. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you! Michael
10Gbit boosts speed rather than reducing latency. Handling numerous small files in the KB/low MB range leads to extremely slow transfers when many exist. A 1GB move might still take minutes, not just seconds as expected for 1Gbit. You’ll likely face the same problems you encountered before.
Create a 7-Zip archive of the folder without compression, select the destination location, and copy the file. Alternatively, use the archive creation options to pick the shared drive folder and generate the archive without compression. The numerous connections affecting speed are likely causing delays. Sending large files improves transfer rate.
Here’s a revised version of your message:
Thanks for the responses, Windows7ge: I was worried about that, but I thought there could be a network card designed for this issue. mariushm: Appreciate the advice, but I won’t be able to compress any files since there are numerous files scattered across various folders and locations (standard parts in one area, borrowed components from other machines). This adds complexity. Also, I don’t want to rely on a centralized vault system because we handle many small jobs and switching between files is cumbersome. Do anyone have other ideas for connecting two computers and exchanging many small files? Or should I consider building a setup with two virtual machines that share a single drive holding all the drawing files? Thanks again.
The main boost in speed for managing many tiny files will come from using an SSD.