SMB performance Windows Home Server 2011

I've got a Windows Home Server 2011 that is my primary file server. It's basically Windows Server 2008 R2.
Interesting problem started a couple of days ago. If I attempt to copy to a file share on the server performance is quite fast 60-70 MB/s. However if I try to copy from the file share, performance is abysmal. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-3MB/s.

I've tried plugging both machines into the same switch, with no change.

Any ideas? Desperate here.

Ignore me.
It was an issue with teracopy on my desktop. I always use teracopy so I wasn't even thinking about it, but I accidentally started a copy from the server using just the windows native copy and the read performance was stellar.
Uninstalled teracopy and reinstalled it. Back to normal.

You may now resume your regularly scheduled program......

Nevermind.... back to crap speeds with teracopy....
Guess I'll go back to just using the native copy.

What do you think about HS 2011? I've had a HS 2003 box for a while and love it but not sure I want a 2011 since drive extender is gone. Does it still do data duplication?

No, it doesn't.
I'm really trying to find the benefit of it over say a Ubuntu box with some samba shares. The only thing it 'does' is the automated backups. But that's easy enough to set up on the local machine and just point it to a network share.

Not really sure what MS is going for with this product. I'm just glad I didn't pay for it

The automated backup and network health broadcasts to all connected machines are great features but the backups have a major flaw. You can't restore to a drive smaller than what you backed up. My wife's laptop lost the drive that was in it, a 500G that was using about 60-80G. I tried to restore to a 320G I had as a spare and it won't do it.

I like the plug-in app model, IF 3rd party vendors would commit to it. I was running ASUS WebStorage on my WHS box and it SUCKED. The application would always re-index because it couldn't handle my 40G or so of images that I needed backed up. Then without notice, ASUS changed their polices to drop WHS support. Combined with shitty support and horrible network performance, I didn't walk, but ran away from their product. I also heard that restores on anything more than about 10G of data will fail (timeout) and when it tries again it starts from scratch.

I've moved to CrashPlan Pro and loving it so far. It is supposed to install on WHS and while it doesn't like the old drive extender stuff, I think it should be ok with the Vail formats.

Sevnn wrote: The automated backup and network health broadcasts to all connected machines are great features but the backups have a major flaw. You can't restore to a drive smaller than what you backed up. My wife's laptop lost the drive that was in it, a 500G that was using about 60-80G. I tried to restore to a 320G I had as a spare and it won't do it..