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by lalitsputhran

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Dear sir,
I have problem with the file transfering from winnt workstation to winnt server.My question is

1)I have winnt server ver 4.0 with service pack 4.0 with Pentium 4 1.5GHz and 256MB sdram,18 Gb SCSI HDD with ASA ultra wide scsi2940 Controller and now the problem is whenever i copies a file of around 70 mb from my winnt workstation (which having Pentium 3 1.2GHz with 20GB hdd and 64MB sdram)to winnt server that means to upload it takes around 20 Minutes and same file if i download form winnt server to winnt workstation it takes hardly 3 minutes.Both the computers are on 100Mbps network.Now the my question is why does this takes more time for uploading than downloading.Uploading takes 70 MB of data to 20MIn and same file downloading takes 3MIN.

The same method i tried in win2000 prof.in that it is just reverse of this uploading is fast and downloading is slow.

So sir please give me some solution fotr this.

Thanking you,

Lalit

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by gary mcp

Hi Lalit,

I don't have a definitve answer for you, but here are a few suggestions.

Do you have any other clients on your network? If the server is busy handling other requests for file and print or application services, it may take longer to write the data sent from the workstation.

Secondly, are you using RAID on the server? RAID 5 , for example gives a faster read time, but a much slower write, because when writing, it has to write the data and the parity info to each of the disks.
Hope this helps,
Gary

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