[geeks] Re: Xserve RAID is out... kind of nice

[Gavin Hubbard]

>http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/
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>Andrew J. Weiss


Very interesting. I'm glad that they're pushing some of their server-side
stuff as the OSX licensing model has some definite cost advantages over the
MS server products (provided Apple doesn't continue charging for 'service
packs' 10.3/10.4/10.5 etc :-)

I'm intrigued that they've implemented IDE drives within the RAID chassis.
Since the RAID functions are presumably off-loaded to an embedded RAID
processor with the array this makes a certain amount of sense. The quoted
figure of 2.52TB raw storage in only 3U of rack space seems pretty
impressive. That's what - 35TB per 42U rack?

Regards,

Gavin