Xserve Outperforms Sun, SGI, Windows

Pahroza writes "Xinet has released their 2002 benchmark configurations, with tests including output generation and AppleShare file serving. Xserve was only bested by machines sporting at least twice as many CPUs as the two it was using. MacCentral is also running a story on the results, and you can download a PDF of the benchmarked configurations."

Comments

Re:No shit

[dbrutus]

Since the XServe is aimed, first of all, for those Macintosh islands of creatives in corporate america as well as apple using scientific firms like genentech, Appleshare connections are very relevant indeed. I would expect that when Apple updates its UFS support to the modern spec and it gets a lot of other small details nailed cold, they'll branch out in their marketing but they're shooting for a specific target market right now and the benchmarks are relevant for that market.

I expect that when Samba 3 integrates perfectly with Active Directory, Apple is going to go after the workgroup file and print market that finds Linux too technically challenging and is sticking for the higher priced Windows solutions for that reason alone. At that point they'll have a track record and IS organizations won't be so nervous about the Apple label anymore.

Re:Apple really isn't hugely overpriced anymore...

[BitGeek]

Dual AMD 1U Servers with identical specs to Apple's Xserve can be had sub-$1000 Xserve costs $5000.

This was claimed many times when the Xserve was announced, but interestingly, nobody was able to give a pointer to one.

Apparently these mythical cheap servers don't exist.

Since its rare for a server to have four drive bays, etc, and a new style 1U enclosure was created by Apple, I'm pretty confident htat you are simply telling a lie here.

If you weren't you'd have provided an example.

Re:This is a horrible horrible benchmark!

[DavidRavenMoon]

The XServe is a server - and 50% of this benchmark test is rating how fast it opens up files in Photoshop? WHO CARES! Its a server, tell me how much faster it is at routing mail, serving files through apache, backing up data, etc. benchmark it doing things that a server does! This benchmark is useless IMHO.

A FILE server, serves files. XServe is not a web server, or a mail server, but it can do those things. As I said before, in a lot of very large print companies, all live jobs are on a central file server. So you log in and open these files off the server. They might be huge 900 MB TIFF files, or a QuarkXPress file with many EPS and TIFF files in it. This is real world, day-to-day work for people like my self.