XServe RAID - No longer available?

[John C. Welch]

On 02/19/2008 09:43 AM, "Lyn" <lynlist at nowdata.com> wrote:

> Great. I just dropped $8,000 on an XServe RAID in January.
> 
> Lyn
> 
> On Feb 19, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Suraj Rai wrote:
> 
>> Looks like the XServe RAID product has been decommissioned by Apple
>> following the announcement for XSan2.  Looks like they are
>> recommending "Promise RAID" solution.
>> 
>> http://www.apple.com/server/storage/
>> 
>> How long before XServe itself is also taken out?

Okay. That Xserve RAID is still just as qualified to the task you needed it
for as it was in Jan. It isn't going to burst into flames, nor will it stop
working because of this. Your support contracts, if any, for it, will still
be in use.

What this means is that for the foreseeable future, Apple's out of the RAID
business, which, considering the commoditization of that segment, makes
sense. They were getting killed in their market, unless you had a real need
for Apple - branding, they were getting killed on the high end, and on the
low end too. Within the last year or so, there wasn't much the Xserve RAID
was better at other than being an Apple-branded RAID.

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