XServe RAID - No longer available?

[Brett Dikeman]

On Feb 19, 2008 9:04 AM, Suraj Rai <surajrai at mac.com> wrote:
> Looks like the XServe RAID product has been decommissioned by Apple

Whoa.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/01/19/sata_based_xserve_raid_prototype_escapes_from_apple_photos.html

Either Apple did an about-face, or someone killed a lot of time in
Photoshop on the above!


> following the announcement for XSan2.  Looks like they are
> recommending "Promise RAID" solution.

Ugh.  They're about 1-2 steps from the bottom of the barrel in the
RAID controller market; I have no experience with their disk array
units, but given how bad support and drivers were for the controllers,
this isn't encouraging.  There had to have been someone better to go
with...

Then again, given how bad the Xraid was, it's hard to fall off the floor...

> How long before XServe itself is also taken out?

I'd say "never"- it fills a market segment nothing else can.  It may
be substantially changed, but there will always be something for a
server/cluster node.  Also, Jobs has consistently maintained that
licensing was a gigantic mistake.  It was (both in terms of
competition they couldn't handle, and a bad experience for users on
clone hardware hurting their brand image.)

Brett