I installed WS12E on my EX490 that used to run WHS v1 and tried a backup from a PC on my Gigabit Ethernet work. The backup was proceeding at a glacial pace so I took a look at the network performance on Task Manager on the WS12E. It showed a transfer rate of about 10Mbps.
I stopped the backup and did a network copy between the two machines and the network showed 750Mbps transfer rate.
I'm pretty sure WHSv1 wasn't this slow at backing up across the same hardware though I don't have the numbers at hand to prove it.
Why is the backup to WS12E so much slower?
Thanks.
P.S.: Also, there seems to no way to put the EX490 into standby mode, the way there was with WHS v1.