Re: Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID

Actually you are both are right and wrong.  The XRaid uses FibreChannel 
to communicate to the host machine(s).  The Raid controller is a 
FibreChannel controller.  After that there is a FibreChannel to UltraATA 
conversion for each drive, separate ATA bus for each drive.

What I am curious about is if this setup gets around ATA fsync problems, 
where the drive reports the write before it is actually performed.


Josh Berkus wrote:

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>>the XServe/XRaid comes with FibreChannel
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>I stand corrected.   That should help things some; it makes it more of a small 
>tradeoff between performance and storage size for the drives.
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