Desperately seeking fast networking for InDesign workgroup

[macworks]

If you're battery is toast, don't forget that using a laptop as a server gives you the benefit of having the option of running on battery should the power go out.

[eric2006]

The laptop will be good as a file server, but it will be even better if you have at least 1 GB of RAM in there.

[Kees Buijs]

Originally Posted by macworks

If you're battery is toast, don't forget that using a laptop as a server gives you the benefit of having the option of running on battery should the power go out.

But remember that a batterij being on power continuously will degrade very rapidly and might provide backup power for a short time. But a short time might be enough to cover small power failures.

But a laptop is certainly not made for this purpose and heating might become an issue in time. Provide more than enough verntilation for heat removal.


Good luck, Kees

[Kees Buijs]

Originally Posted by Yellowbeard

I was guess I am under the assumption that all G5s and Intel Macs ship with Gigabit ethernet?

Additionally that I was once told that even on 100mbit you will hit the ceiling of the drives maximum write/read speed with multiple requests before you max out even the 100mbit?

My remark was not intented as anything else as to make sure that the requester checked that his network is really up to max speed for its connection. And this ofcourse also includes the cabling as some else mentioned.

The time used to transfer data between the systems is decreased by about 10 times and if the server caches data, this might result in a much beter performance even with a harddrive not capable of handling all data per second.


Good luck, Kees