Re: WinMac Digest #11 - 07/09/98

Christian Raymond(craymond[at]algene.com)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 20:39:20 +0200

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>file sharing, no applications, just files.
>
>What are thoughts on NT servers versus Appleshare servers for this
>environment?

We have the same kind of setup here, and the test I ran showed a no-match :
the AppleShare was 30% faster. Here is what we did: we set up four
workstations (3 PM7600 running 7.5.5 and 1 Win95) hooked on the servers and
did simultaneous massive transfer. First, we transfered 1 file of about
500 Meg, then we transfered 1 folder of about 500 meg containing approx
1000 files. This kind of transfer represent the kind of load we have on our
servers. The tests were done fisrt with NT Server 4.0 (which was setup
corectly, according to our NT guy), and then with AppleShareIP5.03. What I
found is that with a (relatively) small number of clients, AppleShare was
faster then NT Server by up to 30%. So with your 29 clients, It's seldom
that more than 3-4 machines will transfer files simultaneously. What I
think is that NT Server must be faster if you have a greater number of
clients.

Also, you might find that AppleShareIP is easyier to administrate.

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