Originally Posted by
robert.manna
Say what you want, but the reality is with '12 we're on an effective version 1.5 of a software that is "new", Yes the concepts have been around for quite some time, but having been part of a firm that was a customer of a "Data caching solution" that was not proprietary in terms of the files it was supposed to cache, I'll take a file type specific solution any day of the week, particularly when dealing with complex databases and permissions management which is what we've got in Revit.
Also, workstations can make just as much a difference in terms of performance of large files, we you were having all these problems prior to attempting to implement Revit Server. Have you tried taking the files out of RS to see how they perform/behave when on a standard file server?