Quote Originally Posted by SourceChild View Post
I just ran tests with file sharing and management on. I see a very small difference. The difference is only when there is activity.

Once I disconnect RDP and all file shares, the performance is fine. I even tried to see if I could bog the system down doing index queries from an SSH command line And no hiccups.

I'll still promote turning it all off but unless someone can show results of the performance losses they have seen, I would say it is negligible.
you cant measure these things- they are intermittent- you dont want any intermittent activity in any show- shows last for hours- this activity takes place every few minutes.

you want as little background disc activity as possible-
the disc system is not multithreaded properly and activity on any disc causes stalls and pauses on others-

there is very little time when playing back movies for any disc activity