I have had an Xserve server and RAID for about a year now and it is great.
I have only half of it populated with drives(7) and I still have over a
Terabyte of space free! That's after backing up all the data I can imagine
backing up.
Ray White
Neff Packaging Solutions
1700 Watterson Trail
Louisville, KY 40299
Tel: 502-491-1820 ext.330
Fax: 502-491-7701
www.neffpackaging.com
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Apple Ships Upgraded Xserve RAID
By Russell Redman CRN
4:56 PM EDT Tue. Sep. 13, 2005
Apple Tuesday released an updated Xserve RAID with beefed-up
storage capacity that the company said slashes the product?s cost
per gigabyte.
The 3U rack storage system now provides up to 7 terabytes of
storage and comes in 1-Tbyte, 3.5-Tbyte and 7-Tbyte
configurations, according to Apple. At the same time, the
Cupertino, Calif.-based company kept the Xserve RAID?s starting
price at $5,999, the same as when the product made its debut in
February 2003.
?We were able to deliver this upgrade without changing the price.
So essentially for our customers, it?s basically $1.86 per
gigabyte for this high level of storage,? said Alex Grossman,
senior director of hardware, servers and storage at Apple. The
previous iteration of the Xserve RAID offered a cost per Gbyte of
$2.32, he said.
At under $2 per Gbyte of storage, the enhanced Xserve RAID beats
the cost of comparable storage from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM
and Sun Microsystems, Apple said on its Web site.
?From a value standpoint, storage is just growing in capacity
every year. People always need more storage. This [new Xserve
RAID] gives them the ability to meet their needs,? Grossman said.
?One of the problems is that budgets are shrinking and storage
needs are growing. So we think that we are definitely at an
industry-leading price here.?
The new Xserve RAID can accommodate up to 14 500-Gbyte Ultra ATA
Apple Drive Modules. It also features dual independent RAID
controllers, each with 512 Mbytes of cache, that offer sustained
throughput of more than 385 Mbytes per second. The Xserve RAID is
certified to run in Mac OS X, Windows, NetWare, SUSE and Red Hat
Linux environments, according to the company.
In June, Apple upgraded the Xserve RAID?s firmware to give the
product?s existing users the ability to support the extra
capacity, Grossman said.
The Xserve RAID costs $5,999 for the 1-Tbyte standard
configuration, $8,499 for the 3.5-Tbyte version and $12,999 for
the top-of-the-line 7-Tbyte solution.
Also on Tuesday, Apple upgraded the storage capacity of its
Xserve 1U rack-mount server by allowing it to accept up to three
500-Gbyte drives, for a total of 1.5 Tbytes of storage. The
Xserve previously held up to three 400-Gbyte drives, Grossman
said. The Xserve?s starting price remains unchanged at $2,999.
Apple said that over the past two years, it has shipped 76
petabytes of Xserve RAID storage. The company has been working
with solution providers to target its Xserve RAID, Xserve and
Xsan SAN systems at vertical markets such as publishing,
professional video, small and midsize business, education and
high-performance computing, according to Grossman.
?We have a large VAR network for Xserve and Xserve RAID, and they
can deliver them to their customers in a lot of different
environments,? he said. ?We help support VARs with service
programs all the way from service parts kits that they can buy
and self-service their customers to AppleCare service programs
that they can resell.?
Apple also offers a Gold Medallion reseller program in which
solution providers can go through a full Storage Networking
Industry Association (SNIA) certification and become experts in
deploying the Xsan, Grossman added.
?This gives them the ability to not only know the file system but
also the Xserves and Xserve RAIDs,? he said. ?The channel loves
the idea of putting out more storage, and as storage grows with
Xserve RAIDs, they can just add additional storage and meet
[customers?] needs across a wide variety of applications.?
Jeff Slyn, Owner
SLYN Systems & Peripherals
(502) 426-5469
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