Xserve RAID: Apple.www.apple.com, Storage system, $5,999 This 3U high-availability, rack storage system delivers seven terabytes of storage capacity at $1.86 per GB. Designed with 14 independent 500GB Ultra ATA An enhanced version of the IDE interface that transfers data at 33, 66 or 100 Mbytes/sec. These enhancements are also called "Ultra DMA," "UDMA," "ATA-33," "ATA-66," "ATA-100," "DMA-33," "DMA-66" and "DMA-100." See IDE for all the ATA types and speeds. drive channels, the dual independent RAID controllers A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. with 512 MB cache per controller offer sustained throughput of over 385MBps. Other features include 1TB RAID 0 total storage available, dual 2GB Fibre Channel SFP SFP Small Form-factor Pluggable (optical transceiver module) SFP Société Française de Physique (French Physics Society; Paris) Sfp Svenska Folkpartiet (Finnish: Swedish People~s Party) ports with 200MBps throughput per channel, four 250 GB ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment Apple Drive Modules and 8MB on-drive cache. More powerful versions are available at $8,499 and $12,999. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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