[nycbug-talk] was Re: FreeBSD software RAID?

[Bob Ippolito]

That's no what an Xserve is. That's the Xserve RAID...

-bob

On 3/8/07, Kit Halsted <kit at kithalsted.com> wrote:
> XServe RAIDs are definitely hardware RAID. What you get is a 3u box
> with 14 drive bays. There are 2 RAID controller units, each
> controlling 7 drive bays. Each drive bay is an independent IDE
> channel. There are redundant power supplies and cooling modules, &
> everything is hot-swappable. The only caveat I would mention is that
> the controllers are not redundant.
>
> Cheers,
> -Kit
>
> At 9:11 AM -0500 3/8/07, Andy Michaels wrote:
> <...>
> >I'm kind of surprised Apple doesn't ship their
> >enterprise-class boxes with hardware RAID.  Can anyone confirm that the
> >XServe RAID is honest-to-goodness hardware RAID?
> <...>
>
> --
> Kit Halsted
> Computers & Networking
> 917-903-9438
> kit at kithalsted.com
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