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Apple,
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Leopard

Let me ask you something: do you like fast storage? Redundant, fast storage? Lots and lots of gigabytes of fast, redundant storage? Sure you do, buddy -- but what's with the
software RAID on your Mac Pro or your Intel-based XServe? That's so last week, now that Apple has released the
RAID cards for Mac Pro and
XServe; you can now do hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, or (Mac Pro only) 0+1 arrays of SATA drives, or superfast SAS drives on the XServe, for the precise mix of speed and reliability that you're craving.
The cards, each $999, come with a raft of requirements. First, they're only for the machines mentioned above; G5 XServes are out of luck. Second, you can't mix and match drive types on the XServe, it's all SAS or all SATA please. Third, a minor point, barely worth mentioning really, but both these cards require
some sort of OS update. Yes, on the heels of this morning's announcement of the
MacBook revisions, we now have a total of three pieces of Apple hardware that require
Leopard to work at all.
via Apple Hot News -- thanks Nelson
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