whitney@sdsu.UUCP (Roger Whitney) (10/05/87)
I am in the process of setting up a lab with 14 Mac +'s with an extra machine to be used as a file server. I plan to use Appleshare. TOPS is a bit out of my budget. The currnet plan is to use a Mac+ as the server with 2 apple 20 meg disks from apple. However the apple disks are rather expensive. My questions are 1) does anyone have experience with appleshare network using some of the less expensive hard drive now out? Is what problems did you have? How is the perfomance of the drives and the network? 2) If I go with an Mac SE with internal hard drive does the network performance improve? If so how much? If one uses the internal apple drive in the SE does one have problems using non-apple external drives? I have read that one should not mix hard drives on appleshare. Is there any software problems that arise using a SE for the server for MAc+ workstations? roger whitney sdsu!whitney@nosc.mil arpa ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdsu!whitney uucp
korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) (10/06/87)
In <2807@sdsu.UUCP>, whitney@sdsu.UUCP (Roger Whitney) said: >... >My questions are 1) does anyone have experience with >appleshare network using some of the less expensive hard >drive now out? We use mostly Apple drives (internal and external), SCSI and non-SCSI. We also have a CMS 40, a Dataframe 20, and a HyperDrive FX-20. Amoung the SCSI drives, I've seen no difference in performance. On one server we have the CMS 40 and a non-SCSI HD20. No problems with any of the drives. >2) If I go with an Mac SE with internal hard drive does >the network performance improve? I haven't sat down and measured it, but it doesn't 'feel' any faster. >Is there any software problems that arise using a SE for the server >for MAc+ workstations? Not that I've found. Nor *should* there be, as the protocall is the same, which is all that matters. MacII servers serving 512Ke workstations, and Mac+ servers serving SEs and MacIIs, etc. etc. Peter P.S. to Mr. Oster: sorry, I've just been too busy to check out whether or not the workstation or the server finder sets the file time-stamp. Perhaps someone else with more free time can check it out? -- Peter "Arrgh" Korn korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU {decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn