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Title: Windows Server 2008 copies 45 Times Faster Than '03 Post by: Alex on November 23, 2007, 05:34:49 PM Windows Server 2008 copies 45 Times Faster Than '03
It's not unheard of for some of the earliest adopters of Microsoft's Vista this year to compare the experience to swimming in wet cement -- slow and not very pretty.But word is filtering out of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant that indicates its new server could be considerably better. Ward Ralston at the Windows Server Division Weblog reports that "our MSN group who is dogfooding Windows Server 200 RC0" has achieved the kind of testing results that might prompt a double-take. In a side-by-side between Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, the group set out to transfer 10.8 GB of "VirtualEarth Stitch files" from one server to another, and back again.On Windows Server 2003, the data took five hours, 40 minutes and 30 seconds to transfer once, and more than six hours to transfer back again. Read full story... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/189294094/windows-server-2008-copies-45-times-faster-than-03 |