December 2008 Entries

Hyper-V SharePoint Development Image: USB 2.0 vs. eSATA vs. C:\ shootout

During my preparations for the the MSDN Webcast I'm presenting tomorrow I realized the eSATA drive I purchased was not performing as fast as I thought it would.  I decided to see exactly how fast my external hard drive runs a virtual machine when it is connected via USB 2.0 vs. the eSATA interface. I also threw in a test to see how the virtual machine runs on the host machine's C:\.  It's been a couple of years since I benchmarked a SharePoint virtual machine, so I thought I would share the results with everyone.  Hyper-V is the virtual technology...

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