Apple Xserve G5 - Now Shipping

[aidamahn]

i was just perusing their xserve offerings on their website. they have the xserve raid with ultra ata drives and fibre channel? isn't fibre channel usually coupled with scsi?

yep, fibre is scsi. what apple does is hook up slower, cheaper ata drives to the fibre. you still do get good performance, and it is much cheaper that pure fibre drives.

 

[stevedekorte]

Hi Shard,

No, I mean the "Xserve G5 PCI Hardware RAID Card" card.
You can find it on the Apple Store - it's the first item under "Server Accessories".

Here is the description:

"This 64-bit/66 MHz PCI card provides enhanced reliability and performance to Xserve G5's internal Serial ATA (SATA) drives using a hardware RAID controller. Bypassing the on-board hard drive controllers, this card provides three independent 150MBps Serial ATA controllers backed by a high-performance RAID processor and 64MB of RAID controller cache with an on-card backup battery."

I ended up purchasing one to give it a try - it works. I'm not using it as the system disk, but it works for additional raid disks.