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Above-and-beyond storage solutions.

Industry-leading storage.

Xserve offers three 3.5-inch drive bays supporting up to 3TB of internal storage.1 That’s a rarity, considering that many popular 1U servers can only handle two 3.5-inch drives or four lower-capacity 2.5-inch drives. But Xserve doesn’t stop there. With support for RAID 5 via an optional RAID card, along with a new solid-state drive option, it ups the ante in server storage capability.

Solid-state of the art.

A new 128GB solid-state drive option provides an ultrafast, low-power boot drive alternative.1 Operating at under 1 watt — versus 12 to 18 watts for a typical spinning drive — this solid-state drive delivers random-access performance that’s up to 20x faster than a SAS drive and up to 48x faster than a SATA drive.2 All with read and write performance that’s about the same as a typical 3.5-inch SATA drive. And since this 1.8-inch drive is installed in a dedicated location, it doesn’t take up a valuable drive bay, leaving all three bays available for primary storage and RAID applications.

Optional hardware RAID.

Trust Xserve to deliver the ultimate reliability for critical server environments. For enhanced dataRAID Utility protection and performance up to 497MB/s,2 a new optional Xserve RAID Card provides hardware RAID 0, 1 and 5 with 512MB of cache and a 72-hour battery backup.

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Flexible drive options.

Xserve 1TB Serial ATA (SATA) Apple Drive Modules pack up to 3TB in a 1U form factor. Rated 24/7 for server-class reliability and performance, these drives are an outstanding dollar-per-gigabyte value. Or add 15,000-rpm Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive modules and enjoy the highest disk performance available today. SAS drives deliver higher sequential performance (up to 163MB/s2), outstanding random-access performance, and best-in-class mean time between failure (MTBF) ratings for the most demanding applications.

  1. 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = 1 trillion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.
  2. Testing conducted by Apple in February 2009 using preproduction 2.93GHz 8-core Xeon-based Xserve units configured with Xserve RAID Card. Testing conducted using Iometer 2006.07.27 with a 30-second ramp-up, 5-minute run duration, 512KB request size, 4 outstanding IOs, and using non-OS-cached reads and writes. System configured with the operating system on 128GB solid-state drive. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve RAID Card. Drive average read latency data from manufacturer’s published data sheets.