Jello wrote:

dc0de wrote:

Jello wrote:
Wow, really 'cheap' RAID storage solutions, where everything is redundant. And it uses Ultra ATA drives each on their own controller so you can cheaply expand with UATA drives for a fraction of the SCSI price. And the whole thing is easy to manage, cause its from Apple.

Uhh, EMC has been doing this for at least 3 years, and their cost for a 14 tray EIDE RAID/SAN/NAS enclosure was around 19K, with drives.

It's easy to manage, and works with all operating systems... Where is the "bargain" or differentiator? Just because it's apple, doesn't give me any real information.

The price for the apple is much less than $19K.

Yes, you are correct, the Apple X-serve is $16,697.00, when you add all of the features and services that you would get with an EMC solution. Marry that with the fact that the EMC Solution has 8Gbytes of cache, and is provided by the leader in the Storage field, I would opt to pay the extra $2500 dollars to have EMC running in my data center. Apple has been notorious for changing hardware architecture after selling it into corporations, leaving their IT investments un-supportable and wholly unsupported.

Jim "Go with the experts, it's worth the extra money" Noble.

RE: The Apple Store (U.S.) - Xserve RAID