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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. Old News by elliotj · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey guys, MacSlash called, they want their story from February 10th back.

    The xServe RAID box has been out for a month. Why is this "news"?

    1. Re:Old News by Drunken_Jackass · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not a duplicate - it's a RAID 1 mirror of the previous story.

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  2. Not news by Nexum · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nope, this is *not* news, the XRaid is over a month old now.

    I think Apple are approaching this carefully, there aren't a huge number of orders, and they know that in the server area they have to be established and seen as a long term player to gain serious marketshare. So they're doing this humbly and slowly, making sure that they get things right.

    They are *not* betting the farm on the server solutions, they are great products and I think its good to see the company diversifying both above (XServe XRaid) and below (iPod) their usual established market area.

    -Nex

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  3. Re:I wonder by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you get into a purchase this big, nobody buys based on name-brand alone. When you're looking at spending a minimum of about $10,000, you darn well do the math to figure cost per terabyte and you compare features and serviceability and whatnot.

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  4. 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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