Bad news day for Apple users?

[Jason Myres]

If this does end up being true, I’m going to miss Xsan. In digital media, its a formula one car in a sea of toyota camrys. If you can’t drive, it may not have been much fun for you. But, if you can, oh man.

An Xsan is the culmination of a bunch of different technologies: DNS, OD, RAID, ACLs, POSIX, AFP, SMB, Fibre, Ethernet, cluster file system, asymmetric metadata. And because of that, everything you learn building an Xsan translates to a ton of other areas. And, if you ever decide you no longer need an Xsan, nearly everything (servers, arrays, switches, cabling, infrastructure) can be repurposed for other uses.

That, and it can seamlessly share out data at 750 MB/s to over 60 clients, and scale to 2 Petabytes. But, if you’re content with a glorified file server, rock on.

JM

[Andrew Richards]

The HardMac story is utter crap, methinks. Time will tell.

Best,
Andy