Let It Roll
Wow, that was fairly unexpected. There were some rumors that the new Xserve would be coming out in a few weeks, but when I saw Apple today, there were the machines! Wow, how many new products is that in just the past month? Apple did a pretty good job in keeping this release quiet, too.
As for the Xserves get 1.33 GHz chips, it is probably due to the amount of heat the chips give off and how well the units can dissipate the heat (otherwise, it might be an Xblob). I haven't seen an Xserve before, but don't they get pretty loud due to the fans and how they have to push the heat out of the unit?
But certainly nice to see a RAID now. Don't need one, but if I had a business, it would certainly be a nice added tool. Or perhaps even better, get several 1U units, and perform a RAID through those, just in case one of the machines goes down, the others are still there.
Wow, that was fairly unexpected. There were some rumors that the new Xserve would be coming out in a few weeks, but when I saw Apple today, there were the machines! Wow, how many new products is that in just the past month? Apple did a pretty good job in keeping this release quiet, too.
As for the Xserves get 1.33 GHz chips, it is probably due to the amount of heat the chips give off and how well the units can dissipate the heat (otherwise, it might be an Xblob). I haven't seen an Xserve before, but don't they get pretty loud due to the fans and how they have to push the heat out of the unit?
But certainly nice to see a RAID now. Don't need one, but if I had a business, it would certainly be a nice added tool. Or perhaps even better, get several 1U units, and perform a RAID through those, just in case one of the machines goes down, the others are still there.