Kashim

Thanks for the replies. I will probably end up physically swapping the drives around until the order is correct in Windows. All drives are connected to internal SATA connectors and there's no RAID control, so it should be fairly painless. The BIOS order of the drives does not matter to me at all and it was a mistake on my part to assume that the BIOS order would match the order in Windows.

Hi. I recently built a file server using an Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard. The seven drives that were installed show up in the correct order on the BIOS screen. But in Windows Disk Management the order is changed from 1-7 to 7, 6, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4. Is there a way to make the drive order shown in the BIOS match the drive order in Windows 10? Is my only option to physically swap the drives around until I get the order I want in Disk Management? (Meaning the BIOS order will be scrambled.) And if I do that, would it cause an issues in Windows? I assume drive letters won't change and Windows would simply re-detect the moved drives on their new SATA channels. But would it leave behind any junk in the registry referencing back to their original SATA positions that could cause any future problems? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi. I'm trying to transfer large files from a Windows 7 machine to a Windows Server 2012 R2 box and I'm only getting around 45 MB/s. The entire network is on gigabit and I know that both the Windows 7 machine and the server are capable of saturating the gigabit link. If I transfer a single large file to the server, I only get around 45 MB/s, but if I start a second transfer while the first is running then the total speed goes to 85-90 MB/s. Then if I start a third transfer, my total speed goes to 110-115 MB/s which is very close to the gigabit speed limit. Slow read/write speeds on either end are not an issue, the storage devices on both ends are capable of read/write speeds in excess of 300 MB/s. Also, if instead of "pushing" the files to the server, I "pull" a single large file to the server (from the Windows 7 machine) then I get around 90-95 MB/s. Anyone know what could be causing this? I need to transfer a lot of large files to the server, but they must be done sequentially not in parallel and pulling them all from the server side is not an option. I need to find a way to get the full speed on individual file transfers coming from the Windows 7 box to the server. The Windows 7 machine has an integrated Intel 82579V Gigabit Ethernet chip. The server has a Realtek Gigabit controller, not sure what chip. Both machines have the latest network drivers installed. I tried changing some of the advanced driver settings on the Windows 7 machine like enabling Adaptive Inter-Frame Spacing and a few others, but they seem to have no effect on transfer speeds. Any suggestions to improve transfer speeds would be greatly appreciated!