Are those drives Western Digital Green drives? Those things are TERRIBLY slow.
As for redirecting C:\Users, I don't recommend it. You can use Windows 7's "Library" functionality to redirect users' documents, music, pictures, etc, over to a network drive with relative safety, but redirecting the whole C:\Users will screw things up that need to access files in that directory before the network layer has finished loading. Chris Chris On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > On 11/26/2012 04:11 PM, Jack Coats wrote: > >> How is the disk formatting doing? ... IIRC (If I Remember Correctly) >> NTFS takes an unreasonably long time to format. That is why M$ >> installations normally give a 'quick format' where the formatting is >> done on demand (and completed as a background task) so installations >> aren't ground to a halt when a new drive must be formatted. >> >> In trying to find some facts >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**NTFS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS>has a >> fairly interesting on NTFS, but I am sure it is not complete >> >> Other articles talk about connection problems. If you can read the >> SMART data on the drives, it might show some issues (to many bad >> blocks, etc). One of the articles talked about NTFS doing a low level >> test (writing zero's, the One's, doing read after write testing, etc) >> but that may not be totally so. >> >> No one seemed to have a 'silver bullet' solution. Most issues were >> not well resolved without extended time. >> >> If these are 'repurposed drives' checking the SMART data might be a >> good idea anyway. >> >> http://www.pcworld.com/**article/226663/10_best_free_** >> hard_drive_utilities.html<http://www.pcworld.com/article/226663/10_best_free_hard_drive_utilities.html> >> references using the free version of HDTUNE or Smartpass's HDCHECKUP. >> Even the W$ command line tool of 'smartctl' ( smartctl -a sde -- or >> whatever). They also mention some 'real time SMART' tools that do >> continuous monitoring for low $. >> >> <> ... Jack >>> >> > Hey Jack, thanks for the rebound. Two and a half days in and we are 27% > formatted :) The drives are some flavor of referb from Newegg. Driving > them off one of the 3-ware RAID cards we bought way back when. > > So now I'm also studying how to put \Users on a drive other than C: as the > boot drive is 80GB and the RAID is 2.8TB. I've found a couple of links > pointed in that general direction. Windows 7 does have symbolic links that > I shall likely put to work. > > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
