Win2k VS Win2k3

[azev]

For a general file server with IDE drives, which OS will provide faster speed ??
Currently we are using win2k server and wondering if upgrading to a win2k3 will improve the speed.

Thanks

 

[Twista]

2k :/

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Twista
2k :/

And your basing that on?

As for the original question, your not likely to see much speed difference between the two platforms. For file sharing use 2k3 will allow the users to recovery deleted/changed files manually from file shares (if you roll out the client).
Bill

 

[NogginBoink]

For a file server, your network or your hard drives will probably limit your speed long before the OS does.

Either OS should easily be able to saturate most networks, if run on a decent system.

 

[Electrode]

This is a job for Linux.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: Electrode
This is a job for Linux.

with samba3.0 for DC😀

 

[Nothinman]

For a general file server with IDE drives, which OS will provide faster speed ??

The OS won't matter much because IDE drives will be the problem here, even in RAID. SCSI drives are much better for random access by multiple people because of Tagged Command Queuing and the lower seek times, you won't be able to get 15K IDE drives for a long time and I think only one line of IDE drives does TCQ.

As for the original question, your not likely to see much speed difference between the two platforms. For file sharing use 2k3 will allow the users to recovery deleted/changed files manually from file shares (if you roll out the client).

Yay, MS finally catches up to where NetWare was 8 years ago =)

One thing they still don't do is hide files/directories you don't have access to though, which an be annoying.

 

[skyking]

That was irritating for me with Samba also. It would default to a guest login in windows, which of course is disabled in Samba. Sort of a catch-22.

 

[Nothinman]

That was irritating for me with Samba also.

Samba 3 now supports the hiding of files you don't have access to, if that's what you were referring to.

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: skyking
with samba3.0 for DC😀

The Samba folks have pretty explicitly warned against using Samba as an Active Directory DC, if that's what you're referring to. The code is there, but they plan on changing it aggressively as they work toward better AD compatibility.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

That was irritating for me with Samba also.

Samba 3 now supports the hiding of files you don't have access to, if that's what you were referring to.

Cool. I am installing it tonight on the server that just borked out on me, so I have yet to see that feature.

The Samba folks have pretty explicitly warned against using Samba as an Active Directory DC, if that's what you're referring to. The code is there, but they plan on changing it aggressively as they work toward better AD compatibility.

I will give it a try here on the home LAN, If I can figure it out. I would not suggest it for a commercial application, given the state of development.

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

For a general file server with IDE drives, which OS will provide faster speed ??

The OS won't matter much because IDE drives will be the problem here, even in RAID. SCSI drives are much better for random access by multiple people because of Tagged Command Queuing and the lower seek times, you won't be able to get 15K IDE drives for a long time and I think only one line of IDE drives does TCQ.

As for the original question, your not likely to see much speed difference between the two platforms. For file sharing use 2k3 will allow the users to recovery deleted/changed files manually from file shares (if you roll out the client).

Yay, MS finally catches up to where NetWare was 8 years ago =)

One thing they still don't do is hide files/directories you don't have access to though, which an be annoying.

What is new here? Isn?t MS domain thingy is a poor copy of the NDS, and SMS is weak compare to ZENwork.

MS might look bad with it customer if they copy all of Novell ideas all in one go, and how are they going to encourage users to upgrade if they use up all technical ideas in one go?