Apple today updated its Xserve RAID storage system, a 3U high-availability, rack storage system to deliver a massive 5.6 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity at the industry’s most aggressive price for storage of just over $2 per GB. Apple has also expanded support for heterogeneous environments with certification from Cisco and SUSE Linux and optimized the system to work with its Xsan Storage Area Network file system.
“Xserve RAID features a breakthrough, high-performance storage architecture that is the perfect complement to any Xserve G5 system,” said Philip Schiller, Apple
Wow
I repeat, Wow…not much more I can say
Expanding it’s citizenship as well as its speed and storage…Eat this, Michael Dell. Comments, Enderoverhaul and Thurrawthroat???
wow…again 2
Good that I did not order one last week
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This was highly unexpected.
I was waiting for the new eMacs not new xServe Raid�s
Now Apple is so cheap that they must rise the prices. xServe Raid is ridiculously cheap.
No no no, you’re all wrong. Everybody knows that Apple is the high-priced premium niche player. Just look at those insanely high prices. $13,000 for an external disk drive! Why, you can buy a drive from PC Warehouse for $149.
Last I checked, 5.6 Terabytes is the same as 5600 GIGAbytes. That would be some $149 hard drive from PC Warehouse.
Where is the serial ATA they have in every other system? Better performance and reliability from what I understand.
yes, We’re going to be ordering one of those for our creative services.
That’s great, so now the cost of a gig on .mac accounts will go down as well? Cut it in half and there’s still $24/gig to pay for rack setup, labor, etc.
Sorry, $23 to cover those costs (and massive profit margin).