I wish to build a San over gigabit ethernet

[Marcus Lyall]

The dual 2ghz g5 with pci express slots.
For some reason, it used up huge amounts of CPU. Like 90% of both at all times. Whereas it only used about 10% of each core on a quad core mac pro.
Other people I know have had the same issue using g5’s as servers. No idea why.
It doesn’t work.
But we are using the g5 to run our tape backup system, which it does really well.

My advice….
You’re doing the right thing by building this. I don’t know whether you’ll get 6 edit seats running from it. You’ll defintely get at least 4. But getting the Ethernet switch configured properly was the hardest bit for us. Look through this forum and get the best switch you can. And try to find someone who really knows about networking, because configuring the network is not easy.

I did it myself, with the help of a very geeky friend who used to set up massive networks. It still cost me about the same as buying it as a package from a reseller. As I said in another post…. If you buy cheap, you buy twice.

[Philippe Perrot]

Thank you Marcus for your advice. I’ll sell the quad and use a 2,66 quad macpro as server. I’ll buy small tree card within few month. I’ll tell you If I’ll succeed tu set up this network with how many workstations.
Now I have cable length trouble, impossible to enable gigabit ethernet beetween two macpros, only 100b-t.
Regards

[Bob Zelin]

MAC Pro’s all have 1000baseT native ethernet ports (Gigabit ethernet). The only reason you may be getting slow speeds between two modern MAC Pro computers is that you have cable issues. Use a new cable.

Bob Zelin

[Philippe Perrot]

It’s that I’ve done yesterday, I baught a new cable. It’s working now !
Thank you