On 6/2/11 8:03 AM, Austin Leeds wrote:
I'm thinking of getting a Mac mini as well… eventually. But I really like the storage capacity of the Xserve.
Theres no real difference between the storage cap of a XServe, a Mac Pro, or a Mac Mini with some external hard drives via USB.
An XServe has, at most, what, 4 hard drives depending on the model? A Mac Pro has at least 2 internal bays (could easily be supplemented by esata and an external chassis). A Mac Mini server has two internal and USB for external drives.
You could add a XServe RAID like I did to either a XServe or Mac Pro, but that's an expensive addon, and requires the use of a Fibre channel card, cabling, and PATA (there was no sata) hard drives.
The other thing to note is that in quite a few cases, Xserves did not have video cards - they were designed to be remote accessed.
All in all, if you want storage, go gige with a NAS - either an Airport Extreme loaded with external hard drives, or another vendor's device that can do AFP or SMB.
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