Question

You have installed windows server 2008 and had to provide a new driver fi le for the disk drives in your computer. now it seems like the disk drives are not responding as quickly as advertised. what can you do?

Answer 1

Disk performance is dependent on many factors, including environment (operating system), workload on computer, memory available, cache size, fragmentation of disk, etc.

Check for latest updates to
1. Windows Server 2008
2. Disk driver file.
Check for disk fragmentation
Use utilities to check if bottleneck on memory (RAM) or disk I/O. Add more RAM if necessary.
Read Windows Server 2008 user guide and follow trouble-shoot instructions.