For what it's worth
Hans
On 22.1.2007, at 23:15, Adam Georgieff wrote:
After years of smooth sailing, my company’s dedicated FileMaker
server has become unstable. It’s a Toshiba self-contained unit
that has been very invisible in terms of administration—it just
works... until now.
I was going to install Server 5.5 on a Mac G4 1.25 GHz with 768 MB
ram running OSX 10.4.4 We have about 20 users in a mixed PC and
Mac environment. I have some questions--
Will this G4 be okay or should I get an Xserve?
I'm using 450MHz G4 towers with 6 to 10 users and it seems to be
working fine for some years now.
If I use this G4, should I install a SCSI UltraWide hard drive and
controller in the computer? (The “FileMaker Server Best Practices”
document recommends at least a SCSI UltraWide drive and to
partition the drive)
What I have done is to use a SATA controller and Softraid to mirror
two SATA disks since hard disks tend to die when you least expect it.
On the G4, should I be running OSX 10.4 server instead of just
regular 10.4?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
-Adam
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