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Originally Posted by Yellowbeard  I would say that your 1st most obvious problem is that you want to stop using your "file sever" as a workstation which is what you appear to be doing. Any activity while you work on it will bog down the performance of other users. I would try working off a NAS try drobo i hear it's cool as hell: http://www.drobo.com/products_drobo.aspx |
Also check what connection speed the MAC's (not mentioned) have as it is nice to have a gigabit switch, but if connections are 100mbit, you leave 90% speed unused. At least the SERVER should be gigabit to begin with.
Good luck, Kees