Just placed an order for a new toy today. Its an end of life item though, so getting it cheap

Will post up pics once its been delivered, but in the mean time, try to guess what it is

Nup. Here's another hint. It weights 45kg

Yup, Xserve RAID 14x500GB SATA, complete with applecare + the FC controller card too

As for the price, let's just say that its a good enough price that I didn't even think twice about it.

Although I'm probably gonna ask myself what the heck I'm gonna do with it later though.. Most likely cart it to over to me office after playing with it for a few weeks.

This post has been edited by fyire: Mar 9 2010, 10:11 PM

Stock disposal cheap That's about all that I can say about the price

Its a dedicated storage rack, not a server.

Opps yeah.. UDMA. My mistake. Too used to just using the term 'SATA' to describe anything that's non scsi these days.

Playing with these 2 yesterday



a photo taken from the back


not mine though. my own rack is due to arrive end of week.

hmm.. no, didn't take those pics. Was just doing some basic file transfer tests, coping in a bunch of files at 3GB size each. Recorded transfer speeds of up to 300mb per second writing to the rack

Brand new dual Xeon XServer and Promise RAID out of the box freshly mounted on the rack

This post has been edited by fyire: Mar 17 2010, 04:41 PM

you still can't beat these guys when it comes to custom jobs though

http://computer-choppers.com/

they were interviewed on BFM 89.9 before, and they were saying that they've got customers who paid up to USD50k to customize their MBPs too.

Well, if they can spend USD50k to mod a MBP, they can probably afford to get it fixed out of warranty too. I mean, the cost of out of warranty repairs is gonna be peanuts compared to the price of such a mod job. Even the original price of the MBP is peanuts compared to that.

Well, buying a brand new one is not a problem, but its more of whether they feel like paying another USD50K to customize a new one or not

Meh, I got a client who's just bought a 100TB Isilon, and then were grumbling about lacking space again 3 months later. Never say storage never being a problem

I'm already down to my last 100GB of space, and that's split across 4x 1TB disks

Well, I still got that 7TB rack sitting unopened in my office. Have yet to bring it home still.