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Max Siegieda wrote:
Short answer, yes it probably would. Tom's Hardware did some tests on various drives alongside some SSDs a while ago, here have a link --> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157-5.htmlIf you can cope with the massively reduced capacity without having to buy more drives (in which case SSDs would be better) then it's a decent option.
Problem is, the bottleneck could then be the network. Personally I say they should stop 'fixing' things with plasters and sort it out once and for all. I mean, a couple of SSD's aren't going to be cheap (cheapest is what, over £100 for 32GB?), and a reasonable speed Intel 'Extreme' X25-E (which seems to be more aimed at servers, workstations and high performance desktops) are around £300 each for 32GB or about £600 each for 64GB.
At that sort of price it would probably be better to write a dedicated application maybe in PHP/MySQL?
What exactly is the Mac's role anyway, is it just holding data files (like a standard Windows/Samba file share or is it running a specific Sage server application?
Looking at this page, http://www.sbslimited.co.uk/sageslow.htm suggests that you can run Server side reports, but it requires a Windows machine (doesn't have to be a server, it says Windows XP Home does the job) but you do need lots of RAM, your limit there on Windows XP (at least 32-Bit) will be 3.5GB, there may be a 64-Bit build of Sage available which would give more memory.
But if it was me, I'd be calling Sage directly for advice or looking at replacing Sage with something else.
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