Hi,
I have a Dell XPS L702X notebook I am using as a desktop replacement. Because I sometimes travel with it I am using offline files as it is a member of a Windows 2003 server domain. I am synchronizing my home folder which is very large (about 69 GB).
Due to the size of my offline files I recently moved my CSC folder from my C: drive which is SSD to my larger D: drive spindle motor hard disk (I was running out of space on C:). Since then I am experiencing long delays browsing folders on my home folder, 1-2 minutes, but only when I am online, which is a 1 GB full-duplex connection to the domain.
If I map another drive to the same share it shows the same poor performance. If I map a drive to the administrative share of the server hard drive and browse that drive the performance is great, as I would expect.
I don't think this has anything to do with network settings since I can access well with work-arounds. What is it about offline files that is causing this performance degradation? Does it have to do with the performance of the SSD versus the traditional spindle motor hard drive? That seems a little hard to believe.
Browsing from the D$ mapped drive is OK but I feel I am missing out on something here....
Thanks in advance,
Steve Marak