[Gllug] OT Firewire/Fast Networking

[Daniel Andersson]

> Thanks...  Unfortunately we are currently using OS 9 clients, although
> we do have there home directories centrally mounting on an OSX server
> (using MacAdmin).  I don't think this is quick enough for video editing
> though, eventhough we have a 10/100 ethernet network, we will be having
> upto 23 children accessing the server at the same time (which has an IDE
> drive).

gbit networks are becoming quite cheap nowadays

upgrade the network to a gbit network and get some scsi drives

the ide drive WILL be the bottleneck if 23 kids try to access it at the same
time, trying to edit big video files (me thinks)

my 2p

/ d


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