Network Drive

[JaredDM]

Yes, I know I used the wrong term here:

I've tried going the network route even using high end routers, etc.

 

[Geoff]

A Network drive cannot go faster than your network which should be 1 Gb/s. WD Passport drive USB3 is 5 Gb/s. Your internal drive top speed is 6 Gb/s (SATA3). So my question is can you take a Hard Drive (Not a Network Drive). Put 2 computers on them and have both computer access the drive at 5 to 6 Gb/s? This is what I think and the answer is NO but I'm posting to see if anyone has an idea of how this can be done. I think you would need a hard drive with 2 USB3 connections which they done make. I'm just trying to learn more and that is why this post.

Just FYI, it's very common for networks to be 2.5Gbps, 5Gbps, 10Gbps, 40Gbps, etc. But for home networks, sure lets assume you max out at 1Gbps.

A mechanical hard drive is not even close to reaching 5-6Gbps. You'll need a high end SSD to obtain those speeds. You'll get similar speeds over a 1Gbps network compared to a mechanical 5400RPM hard drive often found in external drives, regardless of the interface used.

You can't connect an external hard drive to 2 computers. Even if you could, having two computers read/write at the same time cuts performance by more than 50%.