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I'm running a Buffalo Terrastation II NAS in a RAID 5 configuration with 4 x 250Gb IDE disks and a built-in 1Gb n/w connection. It is connected to a Belkin F5D5141-5 5 port 1Gb network switch, there is a second computer plugged in to this which is an email and file server which produces little additional traffic. These are connected via a 5m Cat6 network cable to a ZyXel GS108A 1Gb switch. Attached to this are the W7 machine (see below), an XP Pro machine used for TV recording and an ADSL router, again during normal use there is little extra n/w traffic.
The W7 machine is an HP Pavilion s7620 with an Athlon64 3800 dual core processor, 2GB DDR2 memory on an Asus A8MN-BR motherboard with nVidia chipset. The nic is an onboard Realtek RTL8201CL 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet controller. It has a 200Gb eSata disk with about 50Gb free. It was a clean install of the commercially relased W7 32-bit over an existing XO installation, nothing from the XP install was carried forward. The system is fully patched and runs W7 Media Center and McAfee 2010 beta antivirus/firewall. It is primarily used for video playback but does do recording on occasion (I have checked and I do not believe this to be a factor). The W7 has default settings and drivers, with the exception that I have disabled Aero.
The videos are primarily Divx .avi files of about 700Mb with some .dvr-ms and an increasing number of .wtv files, the latter tend to be in the region of 1-2Gb. I was using the W7 codecs but have now installed Divx 6.8 in effort to fix the problem. Let me know id there is any other info that might be relevant.