Greg,
This may well be viewed as anecdotal but here's what I know.
We had an 800Mhz G4 Tower with 10.4.current running FMS 8.0.current.
It had 1 GB RAM and two internal drives - primary was an Ulta-Wide
SCSI drive at 15,000 RPM (that's where the OS and FMS are located).
We replaced it with a Mac Pro Tower 3Ghz dual-dualcore with 10.4.8
and FMS 8.0.4 universal. It has 2 GB RAM and two internal 7200 ATA
drives.
The hosted solution is 105 dbs converted from FMP5.5 to FMP8.
There has been a slight performance increase. Your mileage may vary.
Stephen
On Jan 6, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Greg Huber wrote:
Hi Listers -
One of my clients got their first MacPro 2.66 GHz recently, and I
have to decide where to put it...
Server or Client?
We are using 3 Macs - all G5 1.8GHz/2.0 Gb ram MacOS 10.4.8, one as
a server running FileMaker Server 8.0v4, and the other two as the
primary clients to the databases. There are four or five smaller
Macs accessing the databases as well.
The primary G5 client is in use 12+ hours a day, every day, and
gets lots of use (the client is dispatching labor - a Theatrical
Union). This machine is doing lots of scripted auto-dial, email,
and PDF to email processes, and could always go faster.
Where would I see the most benefit - as a server (everyone would
benefit, especially because there is a Universal Binary version of
FileMaker Server 8), or replacing our main client, for the focused
"need for speed". I do have FileMaker 8.5 coming, so we will be
Intel friendly on the clients as well.
The rest of the users on the network are fine with speed - so I'm
leaning towards replacing the client.
Thanks, and Happy New Year!
Greg H
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