⚡ Data Transfer Speed Cheat Sheet
Real-world transfer times for common file types across different networks
Home WiFi
50-100 Mbps (6-12 MBps)
JPG
High-res Photo
5 MB
1-2 sec
MP4
4K Video Clip
500 MB
1-2 min
LoRA
LoRA Fine-tune
150 MB
20-40 sec
Office Ethernet
1 Gbps (125 MBps)
PDF
Research Paper
10 MB
0.1 sec
MOV
Meeting Recording
2 GB
16 sec
MODEL
Small Language Model
1.5 GB
12 sec
Data Center (Same Rack)
25-100 Gbps (3-12 GBps)
RAW
Camera RAW File
50 MB
5-15 ms
LoRA
LoRA Fine-tune
150 MB
5-20 ms
LLM
LLM Weights (7B)
10 GB
1-3 sec
Data Center (Cross-Rack)
100-400 Gbps (12-50 GBps)
TIFF
Uncompressed Image
100 MB
2-8 ms
LoRA
LoRA Fine-tune
150 MB
10-30 ms
LLM
LLM Weights (7B)
10 GB
200ms-1s
Hyperscaler-to-Hyperscaler
1-10 Gbps (125 MBps - 1.25 GBps)
TAR
Container Registry Pull
1 GB
1-8 sec
H265
Feature Film
25 GB
30-200 sec
GPT
Large Model (70B)
140 GB
2-18 min
ML Model Size Reference
LoRA Adapters:
10-500 MB
Small Models (7B):
4-15 GB
Medium Models (13-30B):
15-60 GB
Large Models (70B+):
140+ GB