How can I calculate how much time it will take to transfer 10 TB at different speeds?

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How long will it take to transfer 10TB of data at 60Mbps, 80Mbps, 1000Mbps ?

Just to make clear, do you mean Megabits (as you have written) or MegaBytes? — VBwhatnow, Jan 24 '13 at 20:15

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '10 at 23:31

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To calculate transfer time divide the amount of data by transfer speed like this:

(10 terabytes) / (60 Mbps) = 16.1817284 days
(10 terabytes) / (80 Mbps) = 12.1362963 days
(10 terabytes) / (1000 Mbps) = 23.3016889 hours

Or have google do it for you like this

answered Oct 16 '10 at 23:31

Nifle

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It's actually a little longer than that, as there's transmission overhead on the line as well. – Joel Coehoorn Oct 16 '10 at 23:49

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '10 at 23:47

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WolframAlpha is great for this kind of calculations : 10 terabytes at 60mbps

answered Oct 16 '10 at 23:47

Paulo Carvalho

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