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Apple trademarks "XSAN"

Sounds great, but sans aren't cheap!

I would love to see apple attempt a san system. But realistically, it would be through the roof. A two system san setup for our post production suites was just quoted at around $16,000 and that was for about a terabyte. Still I would love to see someone else in this market!
 
msbsound said:
I would love to see apple attempt a san system. But realistically, it would be through the roof. A two system san setup for our post production suites was just quoted at around $16,000 and that was for about a terabyte. Still I would love to see someone else in this market!
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That's a cheap SAN! We bought a two controller SAN, each with 1GB of cache, with two fibre channel 2Gb switches, 4 fibre channel cards, 4 2 meter fibre cables, 720GB of disk space, and 28 Ultra320 drive slots for $60,000.

Which SAN manufacturer did you get that quote from?
 
Xserve/San/RAID

I'm going to step up to the plate here and offer my $.02 on this issue, seeing that I'm the unix administrator at a large university, apple just sent me a dual-g4 xserve, xserve-raid filled full to 3.5TB (512+512 cache, the whole works), and I just got back from Compellent located in Minneapolis playing with various SANs/NAS solutions. Yea... this patent is big freaking news for me!

I contacted apple a month ago and they were happy to send me "something to test samba/nfs/openldap technology in panther server" on... First thing that happened was a visit from 2 reps from apple wearing really weird sunglasses and dark suits...

On the phone, my apple "rep" told me that they were going to be able to score an xserve/raid unit for testing.

Last Friday, I got an email from our helpdesk stating with an empty body, but in the subject line was written, "your mac stuff is here."

To my amazement the label on the xserve-raid said "(512+512, 3500GB)."

Nevermind...
 
caylan said:
...Simply put, I was testing another NAS (noteworthy comment, the xserve raid is NOT an nas/san, it's technically, and IMO a DAS [directly attached storage]) and is not really at the same level as what I was shown/played with this morning at Compellent...PS: I'm 20 years old.
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Directly connecting an XServe RAID to any system does not constitute a SAN, but XServe RAID can be deployed in a SAN. It's like saying a system is a client or a server. The system can function as either or both, it just depends on how it is deployed.

Thanks for the age update too.. :) Not really sure why.
 

Can you repeat that? I didn't quite catch on to what you were saying... :D
 
Cheaper?

GregA said:
To the person who said they looked forward to Apple's SAN being cheaper than Sony's or Avid's - do you really think they would make it cheaper? I hope you're right... but...!
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Considering the lowest cost Avid Unity storage is $40,000 for 2 Ter, and Apple does the same for $12,000, chances are it would be cheaper.

-Alan
 
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