Windows Shares vs. FTP vs. FTPS vs. SFTP

Conducted this little test between a Windows 7 machine and Windows XP machine on a 100 Mbit switch. 

Used FileZilla server for FTP and FTPS server, FileZilla as FTP and FTPS client, Cygwin OpenSSH as SFTP server and WinSCP as SFTP client.

Was surprised to see how much overhead there was on FTPS, but it could also be something specific to FileZilla.

	Windows shares	FTP	FTPS	SFTP
2700 files, 200Mb	4,17 Mb/sec 48 secs	4,76 Mb/sec 42 secs	0,61 Mb/sec 326 secs	3,03 Mb/sec 66 secs
1 file, 550Mb	9,82 Mb/sec 56 secs	11,22 Mb/sec 49 secs	11,00 Mb/sec 50 secs	6,25 Mb/sec 88 secs