I use an old PC as a backup file server, and recently installed additional drives to try to extend its life. (I freely admit, I'm a cheap bastard, and fully realize that this is not a normal way to create a file server.) In addition, the machine's SATA interface has a limit of 2TB per drive, which I'd been working around for a while - so after installing the new drives, I configured them as a single pooled ("Dynamic") disk. (This is essentially a backup to my backups, and so doesn't use any RAID features.) However, this setup seems unworkably slow - I tasked the machine to move a large folder of large files to the new disks, and it's been chugging at it for more than 48 hours now, but it's nowhere near completion. Internet searches have so far turned up only one page that even mentions the problem, but seems to only confirm that my problem isn't the one they're talking about there. Here's the output from the two commands mentioned there:
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 466 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 1863 GB 0 B
Disk 2 Online 1863 GB 0 B
Disk 3 Online 1863 GB 0 B *
Disk 4 Online 1863 GB 0 B *
BlockSize Index Name StartingOffset
512 0 Disk #0, Partition #0 32256
512 1 Disk #0, Partition #1 40048887808
512 0 Disk #1, Partition #0 32256
512 0 Disk #2, Partition #0 32256
512 0 Disk #3, Partition #0 32256
512 0 Disk #4, Partition #0 32256
Am I interpreting this output correctly, that the dynamic drives are already correctly configured? If so, does anyone have a suggestion of where else to look for the bottleneck?
