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. -- Lost Viking ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lost Viking's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
