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

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Wed May 15 11:45:36 CDT 2002


[ On Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 00:13:44 (-0400), Andrew Weiss wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDE   HARDWARE RAID
>
> And pretty damn sweet looking too...
> 
> They should have used SCSI inside however,

Why?  They way they built it (custom SCA-II hot-swap bays, one channel
per disk, etc.) it's _*WAY*_ cheaper and *way* faster than any SCSI
system of the same size could be built.

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