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Xserve Fibre Channel card now has 4Gb

Sorry about the original headline, folks: editing error on my part. Apple quietly added two more high-speed Fibre Channel cards to the product lineup last week: dual and quad-port 4Gb cards are now orderable from the Apple Store with ship dates 7-10 days out (dual-channel card) or 4-6 weeks out (quad-channel card). These cards are PCI Express and compatible only with the Mac Pro or the Intel-based XServe.

For those feeling the need for speed, keep in mind that the XServe RAID still tops out with the built-in dual 2Gb FC ports. To get the benefit of the 4Gb channels on the new cards, you'd have to connect to a 4Gb fiber switch with aggregated bandwidth from several RAIDs (typical of an Xsan deployment).

[via Macenterprise/alienRAID]

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 again.

This update brings support for the larger disks in the slightly revamped Xserve RAID, as well as a number of other fixes that are listed in the support doc.

Thanks, Chris.

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 translates to a whopping 10.5TB (that's a lot of iTunes tracks), up from 7TB.

Also of note, the two top tier pre-configured versions have dropped in price ($300, and $600 cheaper respectively). The 500 GB drive modules have also been priced down from $649 to $599.

Go forth and get your storage on, as the kids say (the kids say that, right?).

Thanks, Jonathan.

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 "extreme astronomy" project -- using cubic miles of the Antarctic icecap as a handy, preconfigured pure water reservoir where possible neutrino collisions can be spotted and analyzed, with the entire mass of the Earth filtering out cosmic rays and other particles -- is going to be generating huge amounts of data when it comes completely online. One RAID will be used for scratch storage of that research data; the other will be used for backup.

Apple has made a strong push for Xserve and Xserve RAID in the research community, focusing on genomics and biochemistry among other disciplines. It's interesting to see astronomy projects purchasing Apple storage gear to add to the arsenal.

[via AlienRAID]

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 tempted to try this myself, but sadly my budget is all Ikea and no Xserve.

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