Dually G5 1.8Ghz w/ 1GB RAM. Only $270!!! — #16

Post #16 by coius

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	PowerPC
Post Date	Mon, 10 Aug 2009 - 12:37
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/dually-g5-1-8ghz-w-1gb-ram-only-270.18193/

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Enjoy.

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Oh I am! It runs pretty much anything I run at it! Oh, and It is waaaaaaaay way faster than my 933Mhz G4. I know people say it lags a bit. Well what do you expect from a machine 5-6 years old now? This was built in 2003 and it's now 2009!

To be honest, it's such a powerful machine, i really don't see much lag unless I tax it really bad. And it's very little lag[1]. Mainly I get lag when dealing with an app that's using a lot of HDD Bandwidth and I have another machine[2] using HDD Bandwidth. That's when it mainly lags. I am working to remedy that though by setting up a RAID (RAID-0) so I can get more bandwidth by spreading it across the SATA Busses.[3]

I can't WAIT to get that new memory!

Then again, it's only 1.5GB More ram. But man, that would be sweet!

Corrections:

[1]:

I meant to say when It gets very little lag when even it gets taxed heavily. A lot of times, I will have a web browser open with up to 25 tabs open, then iTunes, as well as IRC, IM, FTP (for uploading) Copying large files, and a bunch of other stuff

[2]:

Sorry, I meant Application

[3]:

I will be using Disk Utility's SoftRAID Function. That way I get enhanced throughput. I decided to throw the 1TB Drive I fixed into an external enclosure. That way it's portable and I can backup the server. Also, I know it will boot, and I have the files already backed up in real time, it won't be an issue if I do a RAID-0 even if I have a catastrophical crash that is unrecoverable (which is normal when a RAID-0 goes down)