Xserve systems are *extremely* noisy.
Why I am certain one would meet your technical needs, unless you have a
way to physically locate the Xserve remotely, then extend the keyboard,
mouse and video, I feel that you would be better served by purchasing
either a G4 or G5 PowerMac tower.
If you do
Yes, but if he is working with a blade server it won't be as loud. I have an
IBM xseries 226 in my living room that I run all the time. It's very, very
loud. I've had a blade server that was pretty quiet and wasn't to loud. From
what I understand, the Xserve is rack mountable so it's smaller and
He said the intel models were out of the question for him so he wanted to
know about the alternative.
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Hi Austin
Happy to spout about my XServe any time!
It would be three by 1TB = 3TB total. I currently have three 250 2·5” (laptop
size) drives in the bays: SATA connections seem to be the same on 2·5” and
3·5”. If I carry on using the XServe as a main beast, I’ll eventually get
server-grade
On 6/1/11 11:20 PM, Austin Leeds wrote:
Hi all,
I'm thinking of buying an Xserve to replace my old desktop PC (a
Pentium III 733 MHz), but I've never used or even seen one before in
person. I've heard they're usable as desktops, if you've got the room
an
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Well since they stopped
Is that your experience with the Xserve, or just servers in general?
On Jun 2, 12:28 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
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On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Austin Leeds wrote:
Hi all,
I'm thinking of buying an Xserve to replace my old desktop PC (a
Pentium III 733 MHz), but
I'm thinking of getting a Mac mini as well… eventually. But I really
like the storage capacity of the Xserve.
On Jun 2, 1:49 am, Charles Lenington macso...@brightok.net wrote:
On 6/1/11 11:20 PM, Austin Leeds wrote:
Hi all,
I'm thinking of buying an Xserve to replace my old desktop PC (a
On Jun 2, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Austin Leeds firepowerforfree...@gmail.com wrote:
Is that your experience with the Xserve, or just servers in general?
Both.
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On 6/2/11 8:03 AM, Austin Leeds wrote:
I'm thinking of getting a Mac mini as well… eventually. But I really
like the storage capacity of the Xserve.
Theres no real difference between the storage cap of a XServe, a Mac
Pro, or a Mac Mini with some external hard drives via USB.
An XServe
On 6/2/11 9:35 AM, Austin Leeds wrote:
All things considered, I would go with the Mac mini if it wasn't as
expensive. I've seen some really inexpensive working Xserves ($200-
$300) on eBay and thought that might be the better route.
I've seen the XRAID units (empty) for $99. Do they need any
Excellent! Thanks for the info!
So, let's assume I want to just use an Xserve without the RAID for
now. I can probably stand the noise (I prefer noise to deafening
silence), and weren't there fans that could be put in place of a drive
caddy?
Could I easily set up a WebDAV server on one of these?
On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Austin Leeds wrote:
I can probably stand the noise (I prefer noise to deafening
silence)
As an old IT guy let me tell you that that doesn't work in the long run.
Seriously. We were stuck in a small office 3 of us and between 4-15 servers and
two large SCSI RAID
I had the same idea as you, but soon decided against it when i bought two of
them. The first generation G4, and the second generation G4. The first one
was a Dual 1GHZ, and the second was a Dual 1.33GHZ. The first one was LOUD.
I mean LOUD. The second one, was still loud, but better than the
Hi Austin
I'm using an XServe G5 2·0 GHz single processor as a desktop machine,
running Leopard client. (It came with 10.3 server but I wanted Leopard
for TimeMachine and didn't need server capabilities. To be honest I
just wanted the coolness of having my own XServe/shiny Apple joy,
Thanks, that helps a lot. I actually compute most of the time with a
big box fan on full next to me, so I don't think the sound will be
that much of an issue. :) On a side note, the admin's office at my
college is also the server room, and he's in there quite a bit of the
time. His hobby? Building
Hi all,
I'm thinking of buying an Xserve to replace my old desktop PC (a
Pentium III 733 MHz), but I've never used or even seen one before in
person. I've heard they're usable as desktops, if you've got the room
and a good video card—and my room has spaces that would be more blade-
server
That really depends on you. What all are you looking to do/be able to do
with it? What type of server are you wanting to run, and what mostly would
you be doing for the workstation aspect of it.
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On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Austin Leeds wrote:
Hi all,
I'm thinking of buying an Xserve to replace my old desktop PC (a
Pentium III 733 MHz), but I've never used or even seen one before in
person. I've heard they're usable as desktops, if you've got the room
and a good video card—and my
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