Use Share or not...

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Dragon

Hi,

Does anyone out there know if there is a performance difference when you
access a local disk directly (i.e. D:\) and through a share on the same
machine? I've been toild that there isn't any since IP protocol stack will
intercept it and send it back to local disk and request will never touch the
NIC. Is this correct?

TIA
 
Dragon said:
Hi,

Does anyone out there know if there is a performance difference when you
access a local disk directly (i.e. D:\) and through a share on the same
machine? I've been toild that there isn't any since IP protocol stack will
intercept it and send it back to local disk and request will never touch the
NIC. Is this correct?

TIA
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Incorrect. Performance will suck accessing a local share via UNC. I
imagine that could be addressed by using a switch instead of a hub, but
I've never tried it.

hth
 
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