Should I upgrade my file server in my home?
Power Mac G5:
1.8ghz Dual Processor
4GB ram
Stock graphics card.
OS X Snow leopard.
128gb SSD
1tb HDD
Mac Pro 2008
2x 4 Core Intel Xeon (8 core total
16GB RAM
GTX 570
128GB SSD
9TB HDD
Seagate Central 3TB.
Why would you upgrade? What seems to be the problem?
Nothing just wondering if there would be much point
Only if you pay your power bill, those G5s in particular suck juice at a rapid rate. You could probably power a newer server for the same price for a year as running the G5 for a week.
I would downgrade it.
Just get a Raspberry and usb adapter for the drives.
Have early Mac Pro 08. Get that SSD PCI and USB 3.0 card on Amazon. It's dirt cheap and so worth it.
Machine boots up lightning fast and everything still works perfectly on El Capitan. Too bad about Sierra, but it feels like a botnet anyway.
What the heck do you need that much power for a file server?
the power consumption would be a good point, in my opinion
Don't you mean leopard. I was sure 10.5 was the last version that had PPC support.
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>Should I upgrade my file server in my home?
No
Build a new one and put all of those drives in it.
You can get something with an i3 or an i5 6400.
One machine is good enough for what you need to do anyways, and it's gonna run cooler and consume less energy.
I think it's worth it, do it.
Since this is a file server thread I might as well ask this.
What can I do with my own server? I would love to do something with Windows server. I was thinking about hosting a TeamSpeak server and maybe something like a Minecraft server.
What else can I do?
>le ebin rapsberry pi meme
it's an underpowered piece of crap
It's fine for a home file-server, you crooked eyed chimp.
it really isn't
it can't even handle 10MBps transfer
>using those piece of shit roomheaters instead of using a small atom system
Replace the G5 with another 2008 Pro and stick as many drives as you can in there .
>Fine for a home server
>5 MBps unstable connection for file transfers.
Don't mind me I'm just transferring a few dozens of gigs of data in seconds because I bought a cheap 150$ HP microserver.
At a consistent speeds of 100 MBps or higher.
>tfw I payed 200 USD of btc to make the box
JUST USE A RPI LOL IT'S FINE :-DDD
You don't seem to have hit any bottlenecks yet, so there doesn't seem to be any reason to. If anything, you're overdoing it and could downgrade.
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