He are the results of my testing. It is a “Vista while playing music”
issue it seems. Doesn’t matter if said music is located locally or on
the network. Or being played with WinAmp or iTunes. Same results with
Vista32 and Vista64, Fiber and Copper (1GB). XP or OS X are not
affected. Streaming audio from file servers and locally would be
considered "business critical" in this environment.
TO MACHINE OS Fiber to BD Copper to BD Notes
MEDIA100 XP
VEGA VISTA Business x64 1:25 to C After BIOS and NIC driver update.
No running apps.
VEGA VISTA Business x64 5:35 to C Winamp Playing music from Nicolo
Orion32 XP SP2 “2-3 minutes” to C 1GB nForce Controller (NIC). No
Music.
Orion32 XP SP2 2 minutes to C WinApm playing music from Nicolo
VEGA VISTA Business x64 5:30 (via 3Com 1GB fiber card) to C After
ExtremeWare (BD) update to 7.7.
Playing local music from C drive.
VEGA VISTA Business x64 Less than 1 minute to C No apps running
VEGA VISTA Business x64 5:30 to C Playing music from Nicolo.
VEGA VISTA Business x64 1:20 to D No music playing
VEGA VISTA Business x64 Less than 1 minute to C No music (other apps
running)
VEGA VISTA Business x64 5:40 to C WinAmp playing music from Nicolo.
PhotoStudio Mac OS X 1:30 to C No music playing
Vega VISTA Business x64 Less than 1 minute No Music
ALI-LAP Vista Business x86 1:55 to C No music
ALI-LAP Vista Business x86 4:20 to C Music playing from Nicolo
ALI-LAP Vista Business x86 4:20 to C Music playing from local disk
( C )
MEDIA100 XP “1-2 minutes” to C No music playing
MEDIA100 XP “1-2 minutes” to C Music playing from Nicolo
On Jun 20, 9:51 am, Sam <samuel....@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
> We have a client with a new Vista Business x64 Workstation joined to a
> 2003 (native) AD domain. The hardware specs are first class (64GB
> RAM, Dual Qaud core 3+GHz Intel Procs, Fastest SATA disks available,
> 2 Uber Graphics card in SLI, Giabit NIC, etc.). This machine must move
> large amounts of data to a File Server's SAN frequently (hundreds of
> gigs per upload or download). The problem is uploads and downloads to
> this file server via mapped drive in Vista take considerably longer
> than either an XP Pro SP2 or MacBook Pro from THE SAME network jack.
>
> What we have done so far with minimal improvements if any:
> 1. Disabled active AV scanning on the file server and removed it
> completely on the Vista workstation (were using Trend Micro).
> 2. Disabled "Remote Differential Compression".
> 3. Disabled SMB 2.0 via registry
> ***at this point the file transfer calculation seemed to start working
> correctly, previously it would estimate it would take 4+ hours to copy
> 85Gb of test data when in reality it was finished much much sooner
> (several minutes but forget the exact number now)*** Client reported
> some speed improvements at this point but not that great. From the
> file server during the transfer (when this is the only transfer
> happening on the network) the Gigabit NIC on the server reports a
> network utilization of 30-40%.
>
> The entire building is wired with Fiber. The file server and SAN are
> connected to a Black Diamond switch with a 1-2GB fiber blade. The
> workstation is connected to a Allied Telesyn Media converter via
> copper/ethernet gigabit connection (media converter routed to same
> fiber blade).
>
> Next week Im going to do some bench marking with different operating
> systems, data, connections etc. I need to find a fiber card that has
> Vista x64 drivers and see if that helps.
>
> Any ideas on how I can improve this transfer speed?
>
> Thanks in Advance!
>
> Sam