TS: XServe RAID

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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
<a href="http://thinksecret.com/news/xserveraid.html"; target="_blank">http://thinksecret.com/news/xserveraid.html</a>;



The 3U RAID will have 14 ATA buses -- seven, each on two system controllers and with a single Apple Drive Module. It will also boast up to 1.68TB storage, dual-port 2GB fiber, up to 200MB/sec sustained bandwidth, true hot-swap capability, and seamless integration with the Xserve.



Available before the end of the year.





Anyone know how this thing hooks up to an XServe?

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  • Reply 1 of 9
    screedscreed Posts: 1,077member
    "dual 2GB fiber" means two Fibre Channel ports.



    May story from <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,383559,00.asp"; target="_blank">eweek</a>.



    [quote]According to sources, Apple will offer a Fibre Channel PCI Card for the Xserve server unit. <hr></blockquote>



    Fibre Channel is the standard medium for SANs (storage area networks).



    ...which part of this is exactly new? This 'rumor' is merely a statement that Apple's on track with their plans from Spring.



    Screed



    [ 09-23-2002: Message edited by: sCreeD ]</p>
  • Reply 2 of 9
    smithjoelsmithjoel Posts: 240member
    Um, is this just a drive module?
  • Reply 3 of 9
    miami craigmiami craig Posts: 172member
    I wanna get a rackmount-breakout PCI box that goes with the Xserve. Xserve would be great in the studio, just need more PCI cards for DSP cards.
  • Reply 4 of 9
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    Nothing in this that hasn't already been discussed <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=002466"; target="_blank">in this thread</a>, and, funnily enough, 14 drive modules are visible in each photo...
  • Reply 5 of 9
    aphelionaphelion Posts: 736member
    [quote]Originally posted by Miami Craig:

    <strong>I wanna get a rackmount-breakout PCI box that goes with the Xserve. Xserve would be great in the studio, just need more PCI cards for DSP cards.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    BLADE RUNNER in a ClearCube



    ~ My idea in a topic I started months ago "Blade Runner - Modular Mac" has resurfaced only with Wintel HW (blech!).



    But if this came from Apple? imagine the specs! Imagine the heat, power, and space savings! Think about clustering (Gigawire?) hmmm this deserves another look. Not to hijack the thread, but I hope some of the gear heads here will bat this around ...



    Rackmount 3U card cage with Apple Pi, GigaWire, Dual Fiber Channel to hook to Xserve RAID module with clustering, ect. ect.



    <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-958819.html"; target="_blank">ClearCube</a>



    [ 09-23-2002: Message edited by: Aphelion ]</p>
  • Reply 6 of 9
    miami craigmiami craig Posts: 172member
    [quote]Originally posted by Overhope:

    <strong>Nothing in this that hasn't already been discussed <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=002466"; target="_blank">in this thread</a>,</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Umm.. stfu. If there were 1 thread per 5 or 6 similar ideas, there would be just like 10 rediculously long threads that no one would want to go through. I'm so tired of people like you wanting to shut a thread down just because its similar to another one. And besides, its not your job to worry about it, thats up to the mods. That means your not doing anything useful, just complaining. Go away.



    [ 09-23-2002: Message edited by: Miami Craig ]</p>
  • Reply 7 of 9
    altivec_2.0altivec_2.0 Posts: 995member
    If Xserve Raid is coming out with dual 2GB fiber, think this will rubb off into the high end PowerMac. But what kind of competion will this have against SCSI320?
  • Reply 8 of 9
    monsterjaegermonsterjaeger Posts: 49member
    the competition against SCSI 320 is performance, price and capacity/space ratio. The XserveRAID delivers 200MB/s sustained at any RAID level. This is quite a good throughput for a RAID that I doubt can be topped by SCSI320. (Though it's nominally faster, but what drives can deliver that performance and how many of them do you need to do so?)



    Price will be the killer here. As Apple's drive modules are definitely cheaper than SCSI 320 HDs. They are also available in much bigger configurations. I don't know any 3U RAID that will take 1.68TB. (and more in the future when there are drive modules available with 160GB drives certified for 24/7 use and maybe even the new Maxtor 320GB units as well.... 4.4TB in 3U)



    Sidenote: Blade Runner is the Codename for iSync.
  • Reply 9 of 9
    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    Honestly I think something like this is likely a better deal than Xserve RAID, since you can use whatever drives you want instead of the expensive Apple drive modules. Sure it's only 160MB/s instead of 200MB/s, but it's probably a LOT cheaper.



    <a href="http://www.raid.com/02_01_jetstor_iii_ide_14.html"; target="_blank">http://www.raid.com/02_01_jetstor_iii_ide_14.html</a>;
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