Apple XServe - rackmount server

[Eug]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

Dell's PowerEdge 1650 servers, which are about in the same class and price range. Intel Pentium III's with SDR SDRAM. Even their $8300 PowerEdge 2550 servers use Pentium III's (single CPU) with SDRAM.

That's true but these systems aren't the best servers available in the PC world. A dual Xeon/Palomino server will absolutely cane Apple's machine, a machine that is Apple's best.

Remember the Xserve comes with the OS (Unix) and software pre-configured, and unlimited licencing. See here. (If you bought it separately, Mac OS X.1 Server with unlimited licencing alone would cost US$1000.) While you can buy a cheap dual Xeon server, with the prices you see online you get simply the hardware.

 

[Draco]

This thing, like most of Apple's late model machines, looks great. It's so trendy and overpriced. I think they should just start selling their computers at places like Sharper Image... oh wait, they are already doing that. It's called "The Apple Store".

On the otherhand, the OS X server looks pretty cool. The monitoring software also looks like a good time. I wonder how it performs 🙂

 

[n0cg0d]

and that is a truly absurd comparison, since a dual xeon machine costs $10,493,931,943,499.99.

 

[jthsmak]

Originally posted by: n0cg0d
and that is a truly absurd comparison, since a dual xeon machine costs $10,493,931,943,499.99.

Is that you n0cmonkey?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: jthsmak

Originally posted by: n0cg0d
and that is a truly absurd comparison, since a dual xeon machine costs $10,493,931,943,499.99.

Is that you n0cmonkey?

Is that my nick?

 

[AmdEmAll]

That is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen 🙂 I'm not a fan of mac's but I have to admit the XServe is awsome. From looking at the pic I may be wrong but the G4 processors have no heatsinks on them at all?! Just a comple blowers behind them, how the hell is that possible?

 

[Draco]

There are most likely heat-sinks underneath the blowers.

 

[jema]

Originally posted by: Eug
You can get a SCSI 160 card for it.

True, but only for outboard storage solutions AFAIK.

I couldnt find anything that tell if and how it supports RAID. If that is lacking I dont think it will do very well as the way I see it the point of having lots of HDDs in a server is to make sure that the info you got there stays there, not that you can store alot. Atleast that is the point if you ask me 🙂

EDIT: Just found out that there will be a xServe RAID out before the end of the year (hopefully) that will add RAID and it apparently has a maximum of no less that 1.68TeraBytes of HDD space.