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G5 X serve

Although I believe the Xserve needs updating, to a G5 to bring it inline with the other Pro porducts like Powermac, I do not believe tat the speed of the previous Xserve was anything to be ashamed off.
As far as I've been told : being a server, sually means other parts of the system are more important than just the processor, after all what does a server process, mostly data traffic, not very often lot's of scientific computations etc, although the benefits of a faster bus speed should make the next X serve a great server.
But who am I , I'm sure there is someone on this forum who can prove me wrong....

Bring it on a lets "listen" and learn..
 
what kind of server?

Depends on what the server is being used for.
Sometimes you need high I/O Bandwidth or throughput at other times you need the abilty to process data like compute servers and sometimes you need both orther time neither like a terminal server (being just a log in server not M$ version of it).

File-server
Flat files or large media files?

Database
DDS
DataWharehouse


App
Mail server
Tape Backup Server
Render Farm
 
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