07-25-2006, 03:04 PM
I'm adding another workstation to my LAN, and the locals here have convinced me to stay away from a NAS and turn my old G4/500 into a fileserver.
1. Should I consider a Gigabit Ethernet PCI card for this machine? It will be serving up files up to 150 MB. I have a GigE switch already...
2. Would it help to get a SATA PCI card to upgrade the drives inside this server? I'd like the flexibility of being able to move these drives to my G5 should the need arise...
or should I just leave it and go with additional IDE/ATA drives?
This machine will be serving files up to 150 MB, and there will usually be 2-3 other workstations accessing files at the same time.
TIA,
J
1. Should I consider a Gigabit Ethernet PCI card for this machine? It will be serving up files up to 150 MB. I have a GigE switch already...
2. Would it help to get a SATA PCI card to upgrade the drives inside this server? I'd like the flexibility of being able to move these drives to my G5 should the need arise...
or should I just leave it and go with additional IDE/ATA drives?
This machine will be serving files up to 150 MB, and there will usually be 2-3 other workstations accessing files at the same time.
TIA,
J