It must be a new processor since DDR DRAM doesn't make sense on the old CPU's (with the 133Mhz MPX bus). I think that The Register was right for once with <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24018.html"; target="_blank">the story</a> about the 7470 that uses a 266mhz MPX+ bus. They were right about the 4MB cache too. I think we'll see a DDR PowerMac very soon...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think it's the same processor, b/c the 7470 was supposed have 512k on-chip L2 cache, whereas this still has 256. They probably just managed to tweak the MPX bus to support DDR. They've had enough time to do so...
<strong>Why no hardware RAID?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Option available through SCSI card I believe. I think they are suggesting that 4-channel ATA with softRAID is actually more than enough for many users and allows significant cost savings for large volume storage.
It must be a new processor since DDR DRAM doesn't make sense on the old CPU's (with the 133Mhz MPX bus). I think that The Register was right for once with <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24018.html"; target="_blank">the story</a> about the 7470 that uses a 266mhz MPX+ bus. They were right about the 4MB cache too. I think we'll see a DDR PowerMac very soon...</strong><hr></blockquote>
According to the Maccentral posts,
"The server will have a dual 1GHz G4 processor, 256K L2, 4MB DDR L3 caches."
Jobs also said Apple is "humble" as it enters the market.
Apple faces competition from server and storage specialists such as Quantum, Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer and IBM in the market, which already have low-cost file servers, some of which can communicate with Apple computers.
"For everything we know, there are 10 things we don't know," Jobs said.
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It must be a new processor since DDR DRAM doesn't make sense on the old CPU's (with the 133Mhz MPX bus). I think that The Register was right for once with <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24018.html"; target="_blank">the story</a> about the 7470 that uses a 266mhz MPX+ bus. They were right about the 4MB cache too. I think we'll see a DDR PowerMac very soon...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think it's the same processor, b/c the 7470 was supposed have 512k on-chip L2 cache, whereas this still has 256. They probably just managed to tweak the MPX bus to support DDR. They've had enough time to do so...
? 3U height
? 14 drive bays
? 14 120GB ATA drives - in same hot-plug format as Xserve
? 1.68TB
? Dual 2GB Fibre Channel on system
? 400MB/second storage throughput
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<strong>Why no hardware RAID?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Option available through SCSI card I believe. I think they are suggesting that 4-channel ATA with softRAID is actually more than enough for many users and allows significant cost savings for large volume storage.
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It must be a new processor since DDR DRAM doesn't make sense on the old CPU's (with the 133Mhz MPX bus). I think that The Register was right for once with <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24018.html"; target="_blank">the story</a> about the 7470 that uses a 266mhz MPX+ bus. They were right about the 4MB cache too. I think we'll see a DDR PowerMac very soon...</strong><hr></blockquote>
According to the Maccentral posts,
"The server will have a dual 1GHz G4 processor, 256K L2, 4MB DDR L3 caches."
It says 4MB caches which means 4MB per processor.
Oracle.
As a database guy, this is serious good news for Apple. Thanks for the links, guys.
It's a good day.
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Jobs also said Apple is "humble" as it enters the market.
Apple faces competition from server and storage specialists such as Quantum, Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer and IBM in the market, which already have low-cost file servers, some of which can communicate with Apple computers.
"For everything we know, there are 10 things we don't know," Jobs said.
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According to the Maccentral posts,
"The server will have a dual 1GHz G4 processor, 256K L2, 4MB DDR L3 caches."
It says 4MB caches which means 4MB per processor.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Um, no.
According to official Apple press release:
"2MB DDR L3 cache per processor"
wowowwww!
The specs look cool and the 3rd party announcements are nice...but what does it look like?!
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<strong>I thought it was supposed to be 3 hours.
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Probably Q&A with journalists or something like that