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South Park Turns to Xserve for Storage Upgrade
Lam1969 writes "Computerworld reports that South Park producers are turning away from digital linear tape and direct-attached disk storage to a linear tape open setup complimented by Xserve RAID disk arrays. The show's creators never thought South Park would last nine seasons, so a storage hardware upgrade was necessary. J.J. Franzen, technology supervisor at South Park Studios in Los Angeles, says he chose Apple hardware based on a "gut" feeling. From the article: 'While South Park may appear technologically amateurish with its character cutouts, over the past nine seasons the cartoon series has added a great deal of storage-consuming detail, including backgrounds and crowd shots that can take up to 100MB of memory each.'"
After this move, will South Park run on linux?
If this wasn't South Park, nobody would care. Is it really news that they are using a new technology? Companies shift technologies all the time in an effort to become more efficient. It is standard practice.
It's the total experience of using well built software and hardware. Something Windows and Loonix server room Trevs and idiot managers don't read about on moronic IT news sites.
You mean well built hardware like the g4 cube? Or maybe the scratchable ipod? The infamous (Both Desktop and Portable) LCDs? I wonder how often the logic board fails? What about the Imac power button issue?
The truth is, Apple is not infallable, and it's zealotry to claim as much.
Personally, I would have stuck with a nice IBM EXP, Dell StorEdge, or better yet: SATA drives and a nice, proven, reliable Netapp.
The fact that it's news because apple got it's first commericial Xserve sale in it's life is absurd, but common place on good ol' apple dot.
you're an idiot.
Dumb ass. It's not like your claims of him being incorrect are presented with any kind of "back up". Why don't you prove that 2% is "catastrophic". Seriously, what a hypocrite.
Dumbass. Xserve RAID has no such thing. It's nothing but a big fucking disk array. It doesn't run OS X or any other OS for that matter. This is about Xserve RAID. RAID. Guess it would be too much to ask for you to read the summary, let alone the article, huh? The title was ridiculously idiotic, as now over half the posts are assuming it has something to do with OS X. They couldn't fit the word RAID in there??
Oh wait, this is Slashdot. Sub-par is default here.