Hi Bruce I have noticed a lot of people talking about sonnets kit, I'll go have a look at their website and see whats applicable. I think from the research I have done our RAID Boxes attached to Macs will go the way of the dinosaur as they're HVD Devices and we have gone over to LVD Ultra SCSI 160 with the advent of XServe kit.
I have used Xbench to Benchmark all our systems and want to provide a feasible short term upgrade root for some of the slower G4's and G3's to get them somewhere near (but obviousley not even close) the performance of their Dual CPU's counterparts. What did surprise me in my tests was that 2 Dual G4 machines bought at the same time had different CPU's. I noticed that one had half the Level 3 cache of the other machine. What gives? Short supply of superior chips and Apple not wanting to let their customers down in the chain of supply? Anyway enough prevarication, back to work. ;o) Thanks again for the point in the right direction Brian Regards Sean DZineGuru Apologies to those who don't want to hear me waffle on about how nice our machines are, oooo corporate budget to play with YAY ;o) -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 September 2003 17:05 To: G-List Subject: Re: What can be upgraded? Sean wrote: > Hi > > I am tech support for a Design Agency and under my Wing I have the > maintenance upgrade and repair of a number of machines ranging from iMac's, > G3 and G4 Servers, Xserve, Dual G4 Workstations, SCSI RAID Mac Served > Appliances. Some iMacs can be upgraded. Earlier someone mentioned a slot-loading iMac upgrade. G3 and G4 servers can be upgraded. G3 systems can go up to 1000MHz G4's with Sonnet's new line of ZIF upgrades. G4 servers, and the G4 duallies can be upgraded with a number of different upgrades. XServes cannot be upgraded, but jeez, they're not even out of warrantee yet! I've no clue, actually, what you're talking about with "SCSI RAID Mac Served Appliances". If this is NAS units, look to the manufacturer. They can usually have larger disks put into them. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
