Generally when I want to add something to my server I download it via SABNZD which I have running on the machine and it works great, I do it so much in fact that I can't remember the last time I copied something to it via my network.
A couple of days ago I had a lot of data I wanted to move from my PC to the server and didn't feel like trying to do it over my wireless so I used an external USB drive.
I hooked it up, used RDP to connect to my box and within 30 to 60 seconds of beginning the copy process the machine became unusable. The RDP screen would refresh every 1 to 2 min and I could see that the CPU usage was 50% to 90% but I couldn't see an actual
process that was using that much because of the delay. After several attempts / reboots I decided to go back and do the transfer over my wireless. Again...30 to 60 sec into the transfer it would stall out and if I was connected via RDP the cpu would spike
and my session would become unresponsive.
I kept a constant ping going to the server so I could tell when it was back up after a reboot and found that when I attempting my file transfers I would get 2 or 3 normal responses, then a response with a 900ms+ a couple time outs and then sporadic responses
until I canceled it.
Server Specs:
Intel Dual Core 2.0Ghz
4 gigs ram
200 gig IDE sys drive
1TB SATA (Data)
2TB SATA (Data)
400GB SATA (Data)
2x250GB IDE (Data)
I'm not sure if it's because I have a failing drive tho nothing I can see is pointing to that or if it's because I'm using a mix of SATA and IDE tho I don't recall having problems when I first built the machine.
I only see 1 error in event viewer:
Faulting application iexplore.exe version 8.0.6001.18702, faulting mode ntdll.dll version 5.2.3790.4455, fault address 9x0004cde2
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.