Hi
I have assembled a system from old hardware as follows
Based on Thinkcentre M7515
CPU Core1 duo E7400@2.8GHz
4G RAM
Boot drive 80Gb 5400rpm 1% used
RocketRAID 2340RAID controller
Volume1 6 x 500G stripe 10% used
Volume2 2 x 1Tb mirror 50% used
I appreciate none of this is going to give me lightspeed file transfer but it seems very slow (estimate transfer speed 10% of writing to single USB3 drive). I have not checked the speed but it is only 2/3 through a 225Gb folder after 24Hrs
Speed is similar writing to either volume
Looking at reporting info none of the graphs are maxed out, CPU under 20% System load mid graph (300). All disks mostly in bottom third. Memory is high but still has headroom, network in the bottom quarter.
I suspect the issue is the PCI bus.
From your experience is this likely and are there any utilities to look into PCI utilisation?
I suspect I should upgrade to faster motherboard but I would like to know what is causing the issue before investing my 20 cents
Thanks for your help
Sambo52
I have assembled a system from old hardware as follows
Based on Thinkcentre M7515
CPU Core1 duo E7400@2.8GHz
4G RAM
Boot drive 80Gb 5400rpm 1% used
RocketRAID 2340RAID controller
Volume1 6 x 500G stripe 10% used
Volume2 2 x 1Tb mirror 50% used
I appreciate none of this is going to give me lightspeed file transfer but it seems very slow (estimate transfer speed 10% of writing to single USB3 drive). I have not checked the speed but it is only 2/3 through a 225Gb folder after 24Hrs
Speed is similar writing to either volume
Looking at reporting info none of the graphs are maxed out, CPU under 20% System load mid graph (300). All disks mostly in bottom third. Memory is high but still has headroom, network in the bottom quarter.
I suspect the issue is the PCI bus.
From your experience is this likely and are there any utilities to look into PCI utilisation?
I suspect I should upgrade to faster motherboard but I would like to know what is causing the issue before investing my 20 cents
Thanks for your help
Sambo52