Looking For Someone In Stl How Can Turn My Power Mac G5 Into A New Intel Mac Pro Running Mac Osx5/9/2019 Same problem with my Power Mac G5 2GHz Dual: It would power up, but wouldn't boot up, no boot chime, no image on the monitor, no power to keyboard/mouse, and after a minute the fans went crazy. Hello, We are a small press company and we are getting 10 new iMacs for the office. I'd like to turn one of our old mac into a server, which is a PowerMac G5 Mono 1,6 GHz with 1,5 Gb of RAM. I want to buy Mac OS X 10.5 Server and I ask your help for some advice concerning upgrading the G5. USAGE: We will use it for: - fonts, pictures, files sharing over the network (Shared projects, Collaboration), - as a backup interface, - as a FTP server for our external clients, - as a webserver for our websites - for our emails My questions: HARD DRIVE: I want two 500 Gb hard drive in RAID mode. - Which RAID mode? (RAID 0?) - Some recommendation about a brand or particular HD? - Do you recommend more storage size? ![]() MEMORY: 1,5 Gb or RAM, is it enough? NETWORKING: Is it possible to have two ethernet port for maximum network speed? What it Gigabit internet? Is it good for me? MAC OS X Server: Will Mac OS X Server 10.5 be ok? Being a PPC based computer, is it problematic in an all Intel-based computer network? (will some software not work?) CPU: Is it possible to upgrade the CPU? Is it useful for our usage? OTHER: Have you other advice for me or cool possibilities that I'm not aware of? Thank you so much! ![]() >HARD DRIVE: Most hard drives are of good quality these days. Seagate, Samsung and Western Digital are my favorites (Maxtor seems to have had some bad ones lately). Do not use RAID-0 for anything other than temporary files and only if you need the speed. If you lose one drive in RAID-0, you lose the whole array. If you want redundancy (not the same as a real backup), RAID-1 will mirror your data, which means you only get half the total capacity. >MEMORY: For a server, especially a webserver, I would recommend at least 4GB in a pair of PC-3200 RAM. 1.5GB may seem like a lot, but with a lot of users and applications, more RAM will benefit. >NETWORKING: Two ethernet ports can be installed, but a single gigabit card would be better. Gigabit just means the hardware supports 1000Mbit/sec, and you would need a multiport gigabit router/switch and a gigabit card for each machine to reap the benefits. It is cheap enough that it would be worth it. >MAC OS X Server: Can't help here, since I'm more of a Windows person, but I suspect that since it is a Unix derivative, it will work fine. >CPU: I would need to look further into this, since the FSB of the faster cpus are different. You may be asking too much of this cpu for all the tasks you want to run. Ok first off you need to go with a raid 1 or a raid 5. Don't run a raid 0. I would also recomend bumping up the memory to 4 gigs considering you want to host email and whatnot. Memory is cheap and it is better to have too much instead of not enough. The G5's gigabit network adapter should be fine. As far as a power pc in a intel enviroment it shouldn't be an issue but know that newer software is written with the intel macs in mind. You should still have a good amount of options with the g5 chip though. You can't upgrade the processors in the G5 systems(at least I haven't seen any 3rd party upgrades yet). Apple made various changes over the life of the g5 towers and pretty much every config had a different motherboard/logicboard.
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