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Hello Xsan 2, goodbye Xserve Raid
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The “Xserve” is still available, but the “Xserve Raid” is not.
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Prediction for next year’s non-NAB announcement… Xserve discontinued and OS X Server Unlimited runs on PC servers.
Think about it… It wouldn’t hurt Mac sales as nobody would buy OS X Server Unlimited so they can run OS X on a $500 PC, and it solves the single vender issue most corporations shy away from. It would get OS X Server into more corporate data centers.
FWIW
John Heagy
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Just for conversation, the Xserve RAID never received a significant hardware upgrade during it’s product life. It still runs on ATA drives! And the throughput of an Xserve RAID with 14 drives was never great. If you wanted to do uncompressed 1080 HD, you needed at least two RAIDs to achieve the speed needed. That’s like 28 drives!
As far as XSAN 2, I hope that it’s in preparation for Final Cut Server to be introduced soon. It’s a strange time now that Apple has ditched NAB, I don’t know what to expect or when to expect it!
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
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Yes the current Xraid is obsolete compared to others, but let’s not forget when it was introduced it was a the first affordable fibre based mass storage device. When most alternatives where twice the price with fibre drives… Xraid was a breakthrough product. Now that everybody has surpassed it at the same price… job done.
John Heagy
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They figured since they didn’t have the 100 xserve raids to bring with them to show off there was no reason in coming. Ha Ha. Every year I would just stand in awh over all those drives with all the little led lights flickering. Now all we have is a promise, i’m sure it’s a step above the xraid but not near as pretty.
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Perhaps we ought to get a petition going that Promise promises to include pretty blinking blue lights in its Raid.
Michael Horton
lafcpug
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You could, just without any support from Apple.
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yes… blue is such a soothing color…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro
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This is great news. I am looking forward to seeing this in action with Leopard, OS X Server, ARD and a higher speed RAID. Sorry to see the ol’ Tiger Tank go, but there’s new heavy iron raining down from the far east at higher speeds and cheaper prices.
Kevin Monahan
Take My FCP Master’s Workshop!
fcpworld.com
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Perhaps they’ve sold it to Thomson? 🙂
Steve Connor
Adrenalin TelevisionHave you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.
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