Phil Karn;166039 Wrote: 
> Lost Viking wrote:
> 
> > It takes ~45secs from clicking to diplaying the result page. Is this
> > normal? Will it be as slow using the Transporter (once I have it in
> my
> > hands, it is still on its way..)?? *shudder*
> 
> No, that's definitely not normal. IMHO, the Slimserver web interface 
> could be a lot faster, but here it's still only a couple of seconds at
> most.

Ok, this is definitely the case here, with or without virus scanners
etc. active... Keeping fingers crossed for my new server 

Phil Karn;166039 Wrote: 
> 
> Windows is a terrible OS, period. Jettisoning all that virus scanning 
> cruft is just one of many reasons to dump it.+
> 

Ok, I will go into Linux, not now, but I will, promised :-) The IT
professionals in my company use almost exclusively freeBSD for any kind
of server.

Phil Karn;166039 Wrote: 
> 
> Here are some other suggestions to speed up a file server. First, avoid
> 
> external USB hard drives. In my experience, a USB 2.0 external drive is
> 
> less than half as fast as an internal drive.
> 
> Second, if you have the cabinet space and the budget, consider RAID. 
> Without RAID (or a current backup), a failed drive is a major disaster.
> 
> (Do you really want to re-rip a thousand CDs?) With RAID, a failed
> drive 
> is just a minor nuisance. RAID can also speed up read performance quite
> 
> noticeably. Linux has a very nice software RAID subsystem that avoids 
> having to spend money on hardware RAID controllers.
> 
> --Phil

* No external drives in use here for this purpose.
* Although I have no spare room I use RAID, notably RAID1, which saved
my data a couple of times. In addition once in a while (i.e. after each
update of my music archive) I manually copy all files to an external
drive which is stored in a separate place.


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