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XServe RAID Finally Makes An Entrance

Posted by Hemos on from the growing-up-fruity dept.

Currawong writes "Apple's very delayed 3U XServe RAID box has quietly appeared on their web site with details. Most interesting being that it uses ATA100 drives, rather than the usual SCSI, making it a bargain at US$10,999 for 2.52TB, especially compared to similar devices that cost up to 10 times as much for the same storage capacity. In addition, ATTO announced at the same time a MacOSX only dual-channel fibre channel SCSI card."

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  1. Before the trolls get started... by Llywelyn · · Score: 4, Informative

    With the "that's so expensive! You can get more storage than that for $11k and more an actual computer to boot!"

    This is not an offering from Apple that is designed to compete for storage in the home, except maybe for those individuals running a small business. This is not just a "bunch of storage," this is a high-quality server solution that is designed to compete with Sun and IBM.

    This thing has a battery backup module for the cache, dual and *independant* RAID controllers, redundent *cooling* (incidentally, these are self regulating as well), and redundent power supplies. It also all fits inside of a 3U case, which is phenomenal, and hot-swapable drives.

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  2. Good Fiber Channel pricing by TexTex · · Score: 2, Informative

    One thing that is rather cool to see is Apple's pricing of their fiber channel card.

    500 bucks...

    If indeed this is a standard fiber channel pipe, that's a bargain. Most of the SANs I've seen run around $2000 for such a card, and it makes adding fiber worthwhile on a desktop G4 even if you need the bandwidth.

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