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by baadil

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Is there any performance difference if you access a local share (on the same machine) vs. accessing the files directly from the local drive? If yes, how much? Any explanation/links would be great.

Thank you.

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by timwalsh

Empiracal evidence shows that you will not see any access performance penalty. if in fact there is some performance penalty (a few extra CPU cycles while the OS deciphers the physical location of the share), it will be so minor that you won't notice it.

by baadil

Thank you for your reply. Do you happen to have any links/books etc to back this up? I need this to prove to my policy makers that this answer is correct or not.

Thank you.

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