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Originally Posted by doogald
4 drives in RAID 5; 2.7 TB + 500 GB internal, 3.2 TB.
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You can do RAID 5 if you like, but I used to do this on my home nerd-servers. Had one 4 disk Dell SCSI array and one 3-disk Intel SATA array. BOTH had massive array failures--not a disk failure which would have been fine, entire array corruption--and neither could be recovered (thank God for nerd-server backups). Sure, you save a bit of disk space over mirroring, but I for one have sworn it off as a good idea gone bad. At least if a mirrored array fails, each disk is self-contained and data easily recoverable, not spread randomly across drives.
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As I thought about this some more, this is the selling point - the included Server OS in a $1000 box: it's a heck of a lot more expensive to get an xserve. This is a very inexpensive way for a small business that wants SL Server in the door. It may be a small market, but they may have opened the door to SL Sever just a little.
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Maybe. I've often questioned Apple's entry into the server space to begin with. Just doesn't really seem to be a market that they are well positioned to succeed in. Windows server on one side, UNIXes on the other side, and Linux pressuring from below. But yeah, as a cheap, foot-in-the-door kind of box, I'll bite.
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