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Rig of the Day: mini RAID
One Mac mini plus four
400GB drives. omdot uses this set up as his backup server. If his Linux box goes down, the mini RAID can immediately
(just about) take over. Plus, the blue LEDs look cool. "mini_RAID" posted by omdot. If you'd like ...
Apple ships RAID cards for Mac Pro and XServe
Let me ask you something: do you like fast storage? Redundant, fast storage? Lots and lots of gigabytes of fast, redundant storage? Sure you do, buddy -- but what's with the software RAID on your Mac Pro or your Intel-based XServe? That's so last ...
Xserve RAID Admin Tools 1.5.1
When it rains it pours as the Morton Salt company says, which really has nothing to do with this post. First Apple updates the Xserve RAID and then they update the Xserve RAID Admin Tools 1.5.1. I smell conspiracy. No, wait, that's just the salt ...
Apple updates Xserve RAID, now up to 10.5TB
Attention Apple enterprise geeks: Apple has just updated the Xserve RAID. The Xserve RAID, in case you are not aware, is Apple's very competitively priced storage solution. The Xserve RAID can now be configured to sport 14 750 GB drives, which ...
Floppy Disk Striped Raid on a Bondi Blue iMac
I have a little ditty for you dear TUAW reader: Oh how I love RAIDs, both useful and
contrived! What beauty when
my data is striped, Large or small, my data is safe with
all. Take for example, this lovely Bondi Blue iMac with no
less than five ...
OWC Mercury RAID
OWC yesterday introduced a new Mac RAID solution: the Mercury Elite Pro-AL 800 Dual Drive. When you have a capactiy up to 1TB and boast transfer rates of up to 80MB/s, I guess you get to have a long name. It's a little unclear what kinds of RAID the ...
alienRAID.org
It is no secret that I am fascinated most by the Apple hardware that I will most likely never use in real life. I speak, of course, about Xserves, Xserve RAIDs, XSan, and all of Apple's enterprise offerings.Just because I won't ever use them doesn't ...
Coldest XServe RAID on the planet
Server rooms are generally chilly places, with high-powered air conditioning systems running at top speed to keep the big iron from melting. The installation team from the University of Wisconsin - Madison is not likely to have an AC problem ...
Xserve RAID reviewed
Now that you know the basics of Xsan you'll be wanting some hardware to run that sucker on. However, how are you to choose between all the available options?Enter Cuddletech. Yes, I said Cuddletech.They have just posted a very nice review of the ...
Apple updates Xserve RAID
Today, Apple bumped the Xserve RAID up to 7TB of storage across 14 hot-swappable drives, all for $1.86US per gigabyte. The 1U Xserve also experienced a bit of a makeover today, and it can now achieve 1.5TB of storage across three 500GB drives. We ...
Xserve RAID Driver Update 1.0
While I was in Software Update, I noticed there's also a driver update available for Final Cut Pro users who use an Xserve RAID.Xserve RAID Drive Update 1.0 "reduces I/O WRITE latency by overriding behavior to periodically force the Xserve RAID ...
Xserve RAID Admin Tools 1.5
Attention Mac SysAdmins: Apple has just released the Xserve RAID Admin Tools 1.5. Using this Java based tool you can do all manner of RAID related activities (shocking, I know).The coolest thing, to me, is that you can add servers to the tool using ...
Rack your Xserve RAID with Ikea furniture
I just spent a good chunk of my morning wrestling with rack equipment, so I really apprecitate Fraser Speirs Ikea 'rack' for his Xserve RAID. He does point out that the Xserve RAID is loud, but not as loud as he thought it would be. I'm really ...
Xserve RAID powered by… Intel?!
For years people have suggested that Apple
would fare much better if they ported their OS to the Intel platform. The reasoning
goes something like this:
There are lots of Intel boxes out here.
People don’t like Windows.
Lots ...
Mac Pros gain RAID storage option
Oh Apple, you sly devil, what with all the secretly upgrading hardware and not even telling us. Thanks to eagle-eyed reader Eric Wortman, we now also found that the Mac Pro gained a RAID card option for those who need mounds of storage and a secure, ...
