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These are 2 port Intel Pro 1000PT PCI-e cards.Aitor_Ibarra wrote:1) This is probably not the issue if they are recent nics, but what interface are your Intel NICs running on? It's just your speed is suspiciously close to what a gigabit PCI 33Mhz card would do (as opposed to PCIe). If a gigabit ethernet connection is via a slow interface, like old style PCI or USB2, it won't reach gigabit speeds...
When I do a normal Windows filesharing I am pulling about 65%-75% utilization on the NIC.Aitor_Ibarra wrote:2) To rule out starwind being the issue, can you try a simple fileshare and network copy? If this goes fast then the issue is probably with Starwind (although somehow it's specific to you!)
Aitor_Ibarra wrote:3) Have you tried testing against a Starwind RAM disk? If this goes faster then the problem may be with the drives or RAID card or something.
I've tried a few cables and I'm not seeing any layer 1 or layer 2 errors on the switch. I'm assuming this is irelevent now though since I've confirmed that I can pull decent speeds via Windows filesharing.Aitor_Ibarra wrote:4) Another stupid suggestion - check the cable, gigabit needs all four pairs of wires to be working reliably...
Aitor_Ibarra wrote:5) Another thing you can try is to set up the MS initiator on the starwind box so that it points to itself, bypassing the NIC. Say you have windows on c:\, starwind offering up an img target on d:\, use ms initiator to mount that target as e:\ and then do a copy from c:\ to e:\