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I recently had to rebuild a server. There are several things I came across:
1) Hard drive compression. Slow file transfers? That might be because everything is getting compressed on the fly. Sure, you save some space but turning it off should make things go faster. Right click properties for your HDs and turn it off.
2) This seems to be limited to some older SATA hard drives - in particular Western Digitals and Seagates. By default they install with a jumper on the pins limiting the drives to older 150 MB/sec versus 300 MB/sec. Sadly enough, I found this both on my server as well as one drive on my main computer...
3) Jumbo Frames. You can enable this on most newer network adapters by going into its properties. Just a note of warning that I've had some mixed DR results by having enabled this on some adapters when other computers didn't have that feature. You can turn it on, transfer, and see if it makes any difference.
4) HD indexing. If you don't search much, you may notice a gain turning it off. And if you do search a lot, there's other software for searches which are more efficient: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows...-xp-and-vista/
5) *Still testing* Possibly disabling Write Caching (I only recommend this if you have a Backup UPS.) I still have to test this one out. Supposedly if you turn it back on after running a Windows Experience Index test (windows 7), the newer score remains...: http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-...nce-index.html
6) *Still testing* Disable Command Queuing on nForce-based motherboard controllers: http://www.sevenforums.com/performan...html#post10171
7) If you're experience "too many files are in use" errors while copying files over from a Windows 7 install to a server, it's because your server is using SMB 1 and has problems with Windows SMB 2. Some people recommend turning off SMB 2. Personally, I would just update the server since SMB 2 is better. I experienced this issue transferring files over to my NASLite server and have written them about this issue. http://www.petri.co.il/how-to-disabl...erver-2008.htm
Use ReadyBoost / SuperFetch (unless you had SSDs): http://www.groovypost.com/howto/micr...ng-readyboost/
Article from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost
1) Hard drive compression. Slow file transfers? That might be because everything is getting compressed on the fly. Sure, you save some space but turning it off should make things go faster. Right click properties for your HDs and turn it off.
2) This seems to be limited to some older SATA hard drives - in particular Western Digitals and Seagates. By default they install with a jumper on the pins limiting the drives to older 150 MB/sec versus 300 MB/sec. Sadly enough, I found this both on my server as well as one drive on my main computer...
3) Jumbo Frames. You can enable this on most newer network adapters by going into its properties. Just a note of warning that I've had some mixed DR results by having enabled this on some adapters when other computers didn't have that feature. You can turn it on, transfer, and see if it makes any difference.
4) HD indexing. If you don't search much, you may notice a gain turning it off. And if you do search a lot, there's other software for searches which are more efficient: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows...-xp-and-vista/
5) *Still testing* Possibly disabling Write Caching (I only recommend this if you have a Backup UPS.) I still have to test this one out. Supposedly if you turn it back on after running a Windows Experience Index test (windows 7), the newer score remains...: http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-...nce-index.html
6) *Still testing* Disable Command Queuing on nForce-based motherboard controllers: http://www.sevenforums.com/performan...html#post10171
7) If you're experience "too many files are in use" errors while copying files over from a Windows 7 install to a server, it's because your server is using SMB 1 and has problems with Windows SMB 2. Some people recommend turning off SMB 2. Personally, I would just update the server since SMB 2 is better. I experienced this issue transferring files over to my NASLite server and have written them about this issue. http://www.petri.co.il/how-to-disabl...erver-2008.htm
Use ReadyBoost / SuperFetch (unless you had SSDs): http://www.groovypost.com/howto/micr...ng-readyboost/Article from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost
