[rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDE HARDWARE RAID

[Andrew Weiss]

Didn't they indicate a separate controller per drive?

That would fix some inherent limitations... I'd only be concerned about 
quality of drive at that point.

Andrew

On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 02:45 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 
wrote:

> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:14:39PM -0500, 
> CARL.P.HIRSCH at sargentlundy.com wrote:
>> http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/14.server.php
>>
>> Not as pricey as I would have expected. Dual 1Ghz G4, fibre channel,
>> hardware RAID. I'd definitely rather see these coming in the loading 
>> dock
>> into the data center rather than Compaq gear running Win2000.
>
> Heh.
>
> Looks like NeXT, oops, I mean Apple, will finally give Sun a run for
> the money.
>
> This is a win for everyone, since competition in the Unix market =
> more cool stuff to play with.
>
> ATA is fine for lowend systems, since basically for web servers you
> never want to swap or hit the disk - as much as possible should be in
> RAM.  The disk is just there to store stuff for when you power cycle
> the machine.
>
> ./patrick
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