Re: Share vs. Local Drive Performance

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From: IVEY (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:49:36 -0800

No client is involved in my case either. The mapped drive
is pointing to a drive on that local system. We have to
have the extra drive letter for old programs and data that
were hardcoded to look for a specific drive letter.

>-----Original Message-----
>I observe a similar effect. Here are the parameters:
>
>- OS: Win2000 SP4
>- Test 1: Copy a large folder from D: to C:. Average time
required: 5.5
>seconds.
>- Test 2: Copy the same folder from Z: to C:. Average
time required: 11
>seconds.
> Drive Z: is mapped to D$ on the same workstation.
>- Command used in each case:
> xcopy /s d:\SomeFolder c:\temp\Test\Test1\ (or
Test2, Test3 etc). or
> xcopy /s z:\SomeFolder c:\temp\Test\Test2\ (or
Test3, Test4 etc). or
>- Drive C: is FAT32, drive D: is NTFS.
>
>I suspect that the redirector causes the performance to
drop.
>
>
>"Marc Reynolds [MSFT]" <marcrey@online.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:uapA2RmEEHA.576@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Accessing from what type of client and using what
interface?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marc Reynolds
>> Microsoft Technical Support
>>
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
and confers no
>rights.
>>
>>
>> "IVEY" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>> news:133fc01c411f5$4c6406e0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> > We have a Windows 2000 Server with the folowing
>> > configuration:
>> > C: (local system disk)
>> > D: (local hard disk shared as TOOLS)
>> > E: (mapped drive \\server\TOOLS)
>> >
>> > You can access D: without issue. However, access to
E: is
>> > approximatly 5X slower than D:. Is this as designed?
>> >
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