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I have been aiming to swap out motherboards on my HDA for a while now and finally got to it.

I ousted an old XFX 750a mobo for a slightly more feature-stable Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4.

The new motherboard has 2 fewer SATA ports so I added a PCI-express SATA controller card for extra ports.

Everything else in my system is the same as before.

Turns our Fedora 14 isn't as hardware forgiving as we thought. Upon booting to this new system everything was crashing, and my one Ethernet jack was being addressed as eth1 instead of AMAHI's preferred eth0.
After making several attempts to change that I opted for a clean OS reinstall. All of my drives where still connected the whole time and I managed to do the full reinstall of fedora and amahi within about 3 hours, including customizations.
My greyhole storage pool finished a fsck recently and now I'm happy with the whole things back to better condition.

Now there must have been something wrong with that old mobo, because all of a sudden, a 117GB file transfer TO the server is flying by at average 65MB/s in Windows 7. Before, with the old mobo I was slowly creeping down in transfer speeds to mere 5MB/sec.

I wonder what made the difference??

sounds like your old board might not had gigabit lan .....

i just looked up your old board .... strange it has gigabit ....

Yea both boards have gigabit LAN, but I'm thinking perhaps the drivers Linux had for it were bad? The board (XFX 750a) was riddled with issues in the Windows gaming realm when it first came out, which could perhaps contribute to the mess it was in Linux.

My guess is the driver as well. I think we had this talk last month about your network speeds. Im glad your getting faster speeds now. Its much nicer.

Just to add to the transfer speeds improvements...

using TeraCopy in windows tends to boost my transfer rates by 2 to 4 MB/s