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    Intel RAID 1 read performance

    The Windows-driver for Intel ICH10 doesn't distribute reads over the disks, while at least the Linux md-driver does. I don't know about the RAID-function in Windows 7/8 Professional+, maybe someone can jump in here. Read speed in systems that distribute requests should be appr. 1.8x of the write...
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    Do you let your HDD(s) spin down when idle?

    Spun up hours has nothing to do with MTBF. Even while the disk is spun down, the whole "system" called "harddisc" is up - so this has nothing to do with MTBF - maily with energy saving (and a bit of more quietness of course).
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    LAN speed tesst

    And very good. The maximum you could get from 11n is appr. 100mbit OTW. You should ise a tool like inSSIDer to see the networks in your neighbourhood and maybe you can select a channel that fits you better. Check the channel usage near your AP and where your computer is located as there might be...
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    Slow transfers over Samba between Solaris and Linux

    Try mounting the CIFS volume with options directio and nounix. This should speed up significantly (on a rough test appr. 60%).
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    Slow read performance with SAMBA over Gigabit - any ideas?

    So far what I found out helps Samba (on my linux-system, you results may vary): Turn off CPU frequency scheduling or set the governor to performance. This increases throughput considerably (20% on both r/w here) Try changing your adaper offload-settings in Linux (ethtool -k eth0). Your mileage...
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    Putting the "Games don't use more than two cores" myth to rest

    # of cores don't matter is mostly right. see a quad running at 25% (or even 30%) cpu utilization: what you can most probably argue is that just 1 core is used - what task manager shows is something that is greatly falsified by windows, because the OS switches cores "as it thinks to be best"...
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    HP Microserver, slow in linux/bsd fast in windows.

    If you do have 10.04 (that's what I tried it on), this is straightforward: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:polslinux/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade samba sudo apt-get dist-upgrade then add "max protocol = SMB2" to your smb.conf, and voila.
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    HP Microserver, slow in linux/bsd fast in windows.

    Yes (at least a reasonable old one i.e. 2.4 or newer).
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    HP Microserver, slow in linux/bsd fast in windows.

    This is totally independent of the kernel, just the version of smbd is relevant. This absolutely adds up, it's the latency of the ACK-packages, something that is addressed in SMB2. This especially drops in in High-Speed WiFi environments, where SMB2 gets a huge win above SMB1. Note with my...
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    HP Microserver, slow in linux/bsd fast in windows.

    Well here seems to be a bit of confusion and also superficial knowledge, so I post some benchmarks with a bit of explanation here (the dd-type test is rather good, because you can tune a bit, so later more): The Server is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core machine with 1GB RAM (yes, only), a Realtek...
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