SQL 2008 : Pushing Backups Further

I blogged here about using BUFFERCOUNT to speed up database backups.
Here, I attempted to use MAXTRANSFERSIZE to do more.

The command...

BACKUP DATABASE [ImportData]
TO  DISK = N'd:\ImportData.bak'
WITH NOFORMAT, INIT,  NAME = N'ImportData Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10, COMPRESSION, BUFFERCOUNT = 150 , MAXTRANSFERSIZE = 1048576
GO

The default value for MAXTRANSFERSIZE is 1MB (1048576 bytes).
Possible values are multiples of 65536 bytes (64 KB) ranging up to 4MB (4194304 bytes).

The results >

MAXTRANSFERSIZE = 1048576
Processed 216 pages for database 'ImportData', file 'ImportData_log2' on file 1.
BACKUP DATABASE successfully processed 1330824 pages in 155.348 seconds (66.927 MB/sec).

MAXTRANSFERSIZE = 2097152
Processed 458 pages for database 'ImportData', file 'ImportData_log2' on file 1.
BACKUP DATABASE successfully processed 1331090 pages in 145.383 seconds (71.529 MB/sec).

MAXTRANSFERSIZE = 3145728
Processed 201 pages for database 'ImportData', file 'ImportData_log2' on file 1.
BACKUP DATABASE successfully processed 1330913 pages in 145.512 seconds (71.456 MB/sec).

MAXTRANSFERSIZE = 4194304
BACKUP DATABASE successfully processed 1330780 pages in 148.087 seconds (70.206 MB/sec).

The conclusion >

A lot of messing about to only save 10 seconds.
Oh, and performing the backups in this way stressed the server out and it refused connections during the backup period.
Think I'll leave well alone...