help File transfer slows to crawl over network to VM

[deadmorrow]

Hey guys,

 

A new system admin here in my fourth week. I am attempting to archive a 33GB .PST file downloaded from Exchange and move it to a dedicated Archive drive in a VMWare VM over the network. Attached I have a photo of what I am seeing before it errors out on me. The file transfer at the full gigabit speed until it drops and remains to a crawl.

 

The host's drives are running a traditional HDD raid so I am assuming it may be a cache issue that the drive simply cannot handle/maintain the sustained writes?

 

Let me know what you guys think and I can provide any additional details. Thank you in advance!

[Levent]

3 minutes ago, deadmorrow said:

The host's drives are running a traditional HDD raid so I am assuming it may be a cache issue that the drive simply cannot handle/maintain the sustained writes?

That is possible, what drives do you have in the machine?