I keep waffling back and forth about whether to put my AudioMedia II NuBus board to use in my hifi system, for digitizing high-quality audio.
A big drawback is that a well-performing 68k Mac is going to need several NuBus cards -- the AMII, SCSI (JackHammer or SE-IV), and 10/100 Ethernet (if I'm not going to grow old copying audio files off of it). Maybe a video card, too. Plus, even the fastest CPU accelerators are practically useless for encoding compressed formats.
Then it hit me: It's kinda hard to get better than 10~12MB/s through the disk on a 68k Mac anyway, even with a modern drive and a good SCSI card. If the 100Mbps Ethernet cards are well-engineered, we can probably push almost that much data through one of them instead. If I set up halfway decent network-attached storage that could be accessed by the 68k machine and a modern computer, I might be able to get the same 68k performance as using a good SCSI card... with one less NuBus card and no need to "copy to the network."
Has anyone ever tried high-performance network file sharing on a 68k Mac?
A big drawback is that a well-performing 68k Mac is going to need several NuBus cards -- the AMII, SCSI (JackHammer or SE-IV), and 10/100 Ethernet (if I'm not going to grow old copying audio files off of it). Maybe a video card, too. Plus, even the fastest CPU accelerators are practically useless for encoding compressed formats.
Then it hit me: It's kinda hard to get better than 10~12MB/s through the disk on a 68k Mac anyway, even with a modern drive and a good SCSI card. If the 100Mbps Ethernet cards are well-engineered, we can probably push almost that much data through one of them instead. If I set up halfway decent network-attached storage that could be accessed by the 68k machine and a modern computer, I might be able to get the same 68k performance as using a good SCSI card... with one less NuBus card and no need to "copy to the network."
Has anyone ever tried high-performance network file sharing on a 68k Mac?