2011-02-07, 20:30
Anyway, after an entire weekend of "remove drive" taking out the drive, installing jumper on pins 7/8, putting the drive back in, and adding it to the pool, I think I finally got to the bottom of my transfer speed issues I had been having when moving files to/from my WHS on a GigE network.
I am currently running the drive balancer utility to redistribute all the data so that an equal % of all hard drives are filled up. After that I'm going to run the defrag utility; and then I'm going to go to town with some testing.
Anyway, this issue w/ the network transfer speeds has been plaguing me for ...well for quite some times (4-5 months?). I was first introduced to the possibility that it could be due to the western digital drives I have in there on this forum, so I wanted to say a big thank you to the knowledgeable users of this forum that got me pointed in the right direction...
Seriously though, do you know how long it takes to prepare a 2 TB drive for removal, that has advanced formatting set, and there are another 2 TB drives w/ the advanced formatting also installed in the system to slow things down? It takes a long frickin' time. I started this project Saturday morning ... and as I said, drive balancer is running right now, Monday morning...
If this fixes my transfer speed issues, I would say that WHS is the PERFECT file server storage solution for XBMC users. I suppose I should consider doing a writeup and configuring a WHS to be used with XBMC.
Ogi