Today, I traced the networking which feeds the servers / Internet connection so that I could mark it all up, making it easier to fault find when there is a problem. Doing this, I found a problem. Our student file server was set up with an ethernet bond ages ago, to give 2Gbps. This would be fine, except The Last Guy plugged the other end of the bond in to ports that weren't bonded! I've sorted it out now, so network throughput should double, in theory. This may speed up the slow Network Home performance.
I also made some changes to the RAID unit which houses the kid's work. This has two 2Gbps fibre links in to the server - forced at 2Gbps rather than auto negotiating. I've also told it the RAID unit is connected to a server, rather than letting it work that out. This should improve things too.
I've ALSO turned on the drives' cache feature....to increase performance some more.
In other news, I added 6x750GB drives to this RAID. It has taken control of all of them and tells me they are in use, even though I haven't even formatted them yet. This is rubbish.
Beating a couple of companies down on a quote for 30 MacBooks. Nearly ready to purchase with the cheapest price being £535 ish per unit. Bargain.
Busy busy busy.
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