Jesusfrk611
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I bought a used Dell PowerEdge T300 Quad Xeon w/ 8GB RAM and a PowerEdge SC430 P4 2GB RAM to setup a home domain for myself. Previously I was using my old gaming desktop computer with a C2D and 3GB RAM on Windows 7 Pro. I was running that doing file sharing for 2 separate drives as well as running backups of one of those drives and running a time-lapse security webcam. It was a tad but slow, but it worked for what I needed it to do and file transfers had a reasonable speed over the network.
I installed Server 2012 on the T300 and Server 2008 on the SC430. The T300 got the job of Active Directory and DNS as well as file sharing for my data drive and backups for that drive. The SC430 was setup mainly for my media files to stream across the network as I have been doing in the past with my old setup. No backups or anything else.
I spent most of my day setting this all up and went ahead and reinstalled Windows on all my clients (HTPC, desktop, and laptop). All was seeming to go perfectly. Then I go to copy files from the data drive to my HTPC over the network. About 250MB worth of pictures. It took nearly 3 hours at 10-15kbps. Meanwhile I was streaming a video file from the media drive on the other server to the HTPC and it streamed perfectly.
Tested copying files from the data drive to all my other computers. Same deal. Tried making a share on the C drive, same slow file transfer. Did some research and people said updated drivers fixed their slow speeds. Chipset and NIC drivers updated to no avail. It should be noted that the entire server just feels pretty sluggish for the specs it has.
It has two NIC ports that I setup as bridged together connected to a 5 port SOHO Cisco switch. I have a larger switch on order as all 5 ports are being used on the current one and I have another 5 port switch daisy chained off that one to connect the SC430. The router is a cheap Linksys wireless-N. Connected to that is the HTPC, blu-ray player, and wireless to the laptop, then a cable run to the Cisco switch which has 2 ports for the T300, 1 port for the desktop, and 1 port for the next switch that connects the SC430.
Got any ideas? I'd just move the drives over to the SC430, but it doesn't have any more drive bays and I wanted a dedicated media streaming server since I access those files all the time, but I don't get to my data files that often. Is running a Domain controller with file sharing a bad idea? Being that I'm the only user (along with an Administrator and Guest account) I didn't really figure it would be a large issue and it's not like the T300 isn't speced to handle it.
Only other idea I have is maybe it needs a BIOS flash?
I installed Server 2012 on the T300 and Server 2008 on the SC430. The T300 got the job of Active Directory and DNS as well as file sharing for my data drive and backups for that drive. The SC430 was setup mainly for my media files to stream across the network as I have been doing in the past with my old setup. No backups or anything else.
I spent most of my day setting this all up and went ahead and reinstalled Windows on all my clients (HTPC, desktop, and laptop). All was seeming to go perfectly. Then I go to copy files from the data drive to my HTPC over the network. About 250MB worth of pictures. It took nearly 3 hours at 10-15kbps. Meanwhile I was streaming a video file from the media drive on the other server to the HTPC and it streamed perfectly.
Tested copying files from the data drive to all my other computers. Same deal. Tried making a share on the C drive, same slow file transfer. Did some research and people said updated drivers fixed their slow speeds. Chipset and NIC drivers updated to no avail. It should be noted that the entire server just feels pretty sluggish for the specs it has.
It has two NIC ports that I setup as bridged together connected to a 5 port SOHO Cisco switch. I have a larger switch on order as all 5 ports are being used on the current one and I have another 5 port switch daisy chained off that one to connect the SC430. The router is a cheap Linksys wireless-N. Connected to that is the HTPC, blu-ray player, and wireless to the laptop, then a cable run to the Cisco switch which has 2 ports for the T300, 1 port for the desktop, and 1 port for the next switch that connects the SC430.
Got any ideas? I'd just move the drives over to the SC430, but it doesn't have any more drive bays and I wanted a dedicated media streaming server since I access those files all the time, but I don't get to my data files that often. Is running a Domain controller with file sharing a bad idea? Being that I'm the only user (along with an Administrator and Guest account) I didn't really figure it would be a large issue and it's not like the T300 isn't speced to handle it.
Only other idea I have is maybe it needs a BIOS flash?