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Apple RAID marketing?

From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 07:59:50 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005DBFDB.20040107075950@fatcity.com>


So a co-worker sends me an e-mail about Apple's just-announced Xserve RAID with 3+TB for US $11K. After looking at Apple's page, I poo-poo it because it's 7.2K spin ATA/100 drives, which I figure would lead to all sorts of problems. I see today in Computerworld that it's being touted as "blazing" with a max thruput of 210MBps. Hmmmm...I know the mid-range FAStT SAN we're looking at is rated at about 800MBps theoretical max.

Just looking for confirmation/rebuttal that I don't think it would be wise to load up an Xserve RAID with Oracle DBs -- even if the BAARF's nemesis is avoided.

http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid

TIA,
Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA

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