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Slow file copy or slow file transfer with various Windows versions 2k8,...
There are various posts in the Microsoft Technet File Systems and Storage forum (and other forums) indicating slow file copy/transfer speed. The details vary, but most of them involve either Windows...
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NTFS volume defragmentation – Part 2 – supplying NTFS more information
In an earlier blog, I described how developers typically ask NTFS to place a file on a volume without providing NTFS enough information to ensure the file placement does not lead to fragmentation. In...
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NTFS volume defragmentation – Part 3 – supply NTFS even more information
Earlier blogs described the problem of supplying NTFS enough information so that it could make an appropriate placement of a file on an NTFS volume to avoid fragmentation. We concluded that setting the...
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Tips for copying large VHD and VHDX files
I have been copying VHD files for a while and have been partly putting up with some issues, but finally devoted the time to look at the issues a little closer. I have 2 different systems running...
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Windows Write Caching – Part 3 – An Overview For System Administrators
The Windows Cache Manager (also referred to as System Cache) acts as a single system-wide cache that contains driver code, application code, data for both, user mode applications as well as driver...
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Hyper-V 2012 operations and the importance of SMB 3.0 Multichannel
Jose Baretto from Microsoft has put out numerous blogs and talks, including some on SMB 3.0 and Multichannel. Some examples include The basics of SMB 3.0 Multichannel and Windows Server 2012 NIC...
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Backup performance and SMB 3 Multi Channel
In this day and age of exploding data amounts, backup and restore is both increasingly important, and becoming more common and taken for granted. But not all backup “target systems” i.e. the systems to...
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