{"id":550,"date":"2007-01-15T19:44:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/15\/windows-2000-network-drives-are-much-faster-than-network-shortcuts\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T16:37:25","slug":"windows-2000-network-drives-are-much-faster-than-network-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/15\/windows-2000-network-drives-are-much-faster-than-network-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 2000: Network drives are much faster than network shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image42\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Microsoft_Windows_logo.gif\" alt=\"Microsoft Windows\" align=\"left\"\/>I just noticed a small thing in Windows: Everything points to the fact that if I connect a network drive to a server directory (from the <code>Tools...<\/code> menu of the file explorer), the acess to this newly created drive letter (<code>R:\\<\/code>) is much faster than access to its <em>direct<\/em> equivalent shortcut (<em>\\\\Server\\directory\\<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what is the underlying reason (I guess that there is some kind of specific optimization involved). If you know more, please, feel free to explain it to me here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed a small thing in Windows: Everything points to the fact that if I connect a network drive to a server directory (from the Tools&#8230; menu of the file explorer), the acess to this newly created drive letter (R:\\) is much faster than access to its direct equivalent shortcut (\\\\Server\\directory\\). I don&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-routers-networks","category-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}