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Volume operations causing slowness across SMB
Greetings! I'm trying to understand the behavior that I'm experiencing, whether or not its expected and most importantly, how can I improve it. We are a graphic design shop. We use a lot of Adob...
With SMB connections there is an app "SMB plus", which could help to avoid defragmentation right at the beginning, when files are written to your volume by your users. Just make sure you set option "Preallocation" to "enable" after the installation is complete.
The benefit would be faster reading of files during users' access and faster defragmentation operations in general.
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