Xserve RAID

Xserve RAID - cutting edge, industrial strength, high capacity storage, engineered to run hand-in-hand with the Xserve. High-capacity Ultra ATA hard drive technology with an industry-standard 2Gb Fibre Channel interface makes for super-fast, super-reliable data access and with a phenominal 10.5TB of data storage.

Rather than following the ruinously expensive industry practice of relying on Fibre Channel hard drives, Apple did something truly innovative: they designed and developed a high-performance Ultra ATA-to-Fibre Channel systems architecture that delivers superior performance and reliability at a much lower cost. Each 7200-rpm hard drive connects to a dedicated Ultra ATA drive channel to eliminate bottlenecks and maximise the 400MB/s Fibre Channel host connection.

Xserve RAID is designed for non-stop operation, with uninterrupted access to your critical data. Redundant hot-swappable power supplies and cooling modules enable the system to keep running even if one module were to fail. All active components are modular and designed to be switched in and out of place in seconds - without tools and without interruption of service.