We store all working and released files on the fileserver. The fileserver
is raid5 with nightly backups, plus Server2003 allows for easy restore if a
user deletes a file. We have about 90 users in 3 locations, one is a
international location. Open and Save time is a little slower than if files
were local, much slower for international location. We made this decision 4
years after a spate of 5 local harddrive failures in the same week, where
100's of active working drawings were lost, a couple of man-months of work
gone.
A classic case for a PDM, which we now have - but we still use network
storage for working files.
Mitch
wrote in message news:4813471@discussion.autodesk.com...
>I have a quick question regarding opening drawing file over a network...it
>is safe?does it make sense? We have 20 designers and drafters in our office
>and they are all on standalone licenses of Civil Series, Arch. Desktop, and
>AutoCAD and Raster Design on quality PC's. at the it manager don?t
>understand why they would want to work over the network...with their
>AutoCAD drawings seeing how 95% of the files contain some sort of aerial
>photo averaging around 200mb...some say they like it because they might pa
> ss the work off to some other person and then they don?t have to
> re-associate they images and x-refs to the drawing...I think that the load
> is to great over the network and that productivity is less because they
> are waiting longer for things to load...is there a right way? Thanks in
> advance Matt