Hey there,
There is a SMB share on my server with over 6,000 folders in it
Recently, browsing this folder has become very slow to the point of seeing the green progress timer in Windows File Explorer for 60 seconds before it finally stops. Same situation if I hit F5 Refresh. It goes again with the green progress timer for 60 seconds...
First I thought it was Windows, tested with 11 Pro desktop, 11 Home laptop and 7 Ultimate in a VM, but same long delay on all of those.
The share resides on brand new 7200 rpm, 512MB cache, 14TB Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC530
A duplicate of the share was created on TrueNAS and browsing that dup share with the same above Windows clients take under 1 second to display. Not even seeing the green progress at all
Please, let me know if you need +info
Any help to solve my issue would be much appreciated
Thank you