[GRLUG] Storage Request

[Casey DuBois]

Thank you ALL for some great suggestions.
Here is my customer's response to the questions you came up with.

Q: Is this lan only access or a wan involved?
A: Both cases are of interest, perhaps the LAN model initially


Q: Is the slow performance a single user on an unencumbered
connection, or are they having trouble with multiple users
simultaneously accessing files.
A: The first case – single user via unencumbered connection.


Q: I would be interested to see if the same file transfer using a
different protocol but same hardware and file selection would get
different results.  For example, have the win user use winscp or
another ftp client to pull the same files without using Windows
Explorer.
A: We are using CIFS protocol on Windows and NFS on Linux, but don’t
have the time right now to explore using different protocols – our
facility is operating and we do this kind of testing at the moment.


Q: I have found wan file share browsing remote smb shares to be much
snappier in win7 that I ever did with winxp.  I think win7 is doing
some caching or prefetching dir list info in the background.  The
transfer is the same speed, but I dont wait as long for very full
directories to appear and be usable in Win Explorer.
A: We’ll keep this in mind.


I'm leaning towards a HP Server (DL385G6 with 2x6-core and 16-32GB RAM
with attached Storage)
What would you guys do?

Casey

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