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Windows Server 2008 R2 and SBS 2011 RTM or SP1 – You may experience disk I/O performance issues with certain Intel Xeon Processors

You may experience disk I/O performance issues if your server contains an Intel Xeon Westmere-EX (10 Core) processor

This can occur because some of the I/O completion port objects are not cache-aligned. This behavior is whatĀ causes poor disk I/O performance.

You can resolve the issue by updating Ntoskrnl.exe andĀ Ntkrnlpa.exe updated versions are available for download from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2545635