FileIOTest – Times the Duration of File IO Operations FileIOTest is a command line tool that tests the speed of local or remote (SMB) storage by performing some common file IO operations repeatedly and measuring the duration. Read more
Benchmarking Windows 7 Offline Files Transparent Caching Windows 7 comes with several features that promise to greatly improve file access over a WAN. One of them is version 2 of the SMB protocol, another transparent caching. This article describes how I measured their effectiveness. Read more
Officially Announced New Features in Windows 8 (Client and Server) This is an attempt to list officially announced new and changed features in Windows 8. I will update this list as new announcements are made. Read more
The Unmanageable File Server I had an interesting little case to solve at home recently when my headless file server suddenly would not accept RDP connections any more. It still worked flawlessly as a file server, so I ignored the problem for a while. Read more
