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fileserver

  1. godorowski

    PowerMac G5 power draw as fileserver

    I like using my old G5 as fileserver. I don't care about read/write speed as it's okay for streaming or daily office file use but this device is so power hungry that I see this on my powerbill. Is there a way to cap power usage of this pc or just this architecture is so bad that it needs 200W...
  2. C

    Fileserver/share Recommendation for Macs Clients

    Hello dear community, We are looking for an alternative way to provide a file share for the MacBooks in the office. There must be some kind of best practice for this. Currently, a Windows file server is accessed via SMB. Here the performance with the MacBooks is not acceptable, even with smb...
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