Re: [PERFORM] Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID

[Kevin Barnard]

Actually you are both are right and wrong.  The XRaid uses FibreChannel to communicate to the host machine(s).  The Raid controller is a FibreChannel controller.  After that there is a FibreChannel to UltraATA conversion for each drive, separate ATA bus for each drive. What I am curious about is if this setup gets around ATA fsync problems, where the drive reports the write before it is actually performed. Josh Berkus wrote: Guys, the XServe/XRaid comes with FibreChannel I stand corrected. That should help things some; it makes it more of a small tradeoff between performance and storage size for the drives. -- Kevin Barnard Speed Fulfillment and Call Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214-258-0120