We're looking to get an Xserve or two within the next month. They'll be used as file servers, do authentication, home hosting and such for a mixed-platform office.
I'm trying to decide if there's any reason to wait for the next revision to come out. It looks like they very quietly upgraded the drive modules (and added the internal RAID card, something I'm not after--we'll be getting an Xserve RAID for storage, and software level0 for the boot drives should suffice) after the announcement on the seventh, but I don't think that rules out an actual big upgrade any time in the near future.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? If the likely upgrades wouldn't have that much of an impact on the main purpose of the machine I may just get the current ones to get switched over to some more reliable machines.
(We're hobbling along on an old first-gen 'screamer' Xserve at the moment, complete with its chain of external drives and funky hardware monitoring).
We'll be serving primarily 10-50 meg files, but plenty of them. No DV streaming or anything like that.
Trying to get a feel for what I might gain by waiting at this point.
I'm trying to decide if there's any reason to wait for the next revision to come out. It looks like they very quietly upgraded the drive modules (and added the internal RAID card, something I'm not after--we'll be getting an Xserve RAID for storage, and software level0 for the boot drives should suffice) after the announcement on the seventh, but I don't think that rules out an actual big upgrade any time in the near future.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? If the likely upgrades wouldn't have that much of an impact on the main purpose of the machine I may just get the current ones to get switched over to some more reliable machines.
(We're hobbling along on an old first-gen 'screamer' Xserve at the moment, complete with its chain of external drives and funky hardware monitoring).
We'll be serving primarily 10-50 meg files, but plenty of them. No DV streaming or anything like that.
Trying to get a feel for what I might gain by waiting at this point.