Re: Server vs Notebook as Server for FW programms
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:42 am
Otto,
My experience has always been that notebooks with decent storage had slower drives than small towers. Also, notebooks were usually requiring a long down time for repairs where tower computers could be running again in minutes.
Newer notebooks using SSD technology perform faster but are also quite expensive.
Generally, I'm not sure a computer actually needs Server software. A Win 10 Pro machine might be quite sufficient.
Of course you are using RDC and I don't. How many workstations are using these servers concurrently ? Most of my clients have 5 to 20 workstations all drawing off the same database. Wouldn't that require an equal number of client installs on the server for RDC ? I'm not sure how you have your work configured so I'm still not clear how RDC can work well.
Tim
My experience has always been that notebooks with decent storage had slower drives than small towers. Also, notebooks were usually requiring a long down time for repairs where tower computers could be running again in minutes.
Newer notebooks using SSD technology perform faster but are also quite expensive.
Generally, I'm not sure a computer actually needs Server software. A Win 10 Pro machine might be quite sufficient.
Of course you are using RDC and I don't. How many workstations are using these servers concurrently ? Most of my clients have 5 to 20 workstations all drawing off the same database. Wouldn't that require an equal number of client installs on the server for RDC ? I'm not sure how you have your work configured so I'm still not clear how RDC can work well.
Tim