Vista = garbage!!

[kerrcdc]

[QUOTE=gz1]Well I was one of the early adopters of vista. Have been running it since the beta release. I am running it on a P4 3.6GHZ with 4GB ram (of which only 3.2GB are usable actually, but that's another story). When using it as a standalone PC and basic web/email/word stuff it is great. Everything works fine, nice and fast and very stable.
I also do a lot of photo work, both stills and movies. Nothing pro mainly hobby stuff but still have over 10,000 photos, mainly happy snaps of the kids.
This was running on XP pro and the photos/movies were on a 4TB NAS shared to everything else at home.
So I thought i'll use vista to do some photo management and see how the media center in it works.
And this is where vista comes unstuck. Badly. Copying or accessing a large number of files from the network simply does not work. I have tried all the tips and workarounds and still it is very slow. at least an order of magnitude slower than XP on the same hardware and same network. Transferring a large directory with approx 6,000 files in it, the speed drops to ~300k/sec. I've seen faster dial-up transfers.
Micro$oft acknowledge there is a problem and have supplied a hot-fix that did absolutely nothing. their response: try a different NAS server or wait for service pack 1 either of which may or may not fix the problem.
Like I can just swap out 4TB of NAS that works perfectly with everything


Interesting, when i try to access my Vista box from libux via CIFS, the tv (its my media centre) just stops working for a second! it never used to do that when i ran XP MCE. sounds like some issue withg the way vista is handling files and/or network drivers..