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Xserve RAID Missing Following Xsan 2 Launch

Xserve RAID Missing Following Xsan 2 Launch

by , 9:55 AM EST, February 19th, 2008

Apple's Xserve RAID quietly and unceremoniously disappeared from the company's Web site and online store following the launch of Xsan 2 on Tuesday. Xserve RAID was Apple's enterprise-level RAID storage system designed to work with the Xserve and other server-grade systems.

The Xserve RAID page on Apple's Web site now redirects to a server storage page, and although a search for Xserve RAID at the Apple Store shows a link to a product page, clicking through to the page returns a warning that the product is currently unavailable.

Apple representatives were not available to confirm that the Xserve RAID is now a discontinued product.

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Close Name:gopher Posts: 291 Joined: 28 Mar 2002
Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:34 am Subject: XServe RAID's new name Promise RAID

Visit http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/ and you are forwarded to a new page that has a purchase site for a "Promise RAID".

"Tales of my death have been greatly exaggerated!"


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Close Name:jcbeckman Posts: 55 Joined: 06 May 2004
Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:08 pm Subject: Not a new name

Promise is an entirely different, separate company. Apple is just reselling their solution (which is pretty good by the way - we are a happy customer). XServe RAID *is* dead, no exaggeration.


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Close Name:BillW Posts: 1 Joined: 19 Feb 2008
Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:14 pm Subject:

What a pity, like so many of Apple's products, it was a thing of elegance. I'm sure the Promise product performs well, but I was so looking forward to putting the XServe Raid in my rack when I needed more space!


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Close Name:brett_x Posts: 322 Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:19 pm Subject: confirmed.

The XServe RAID is dead. EOL is what they call it. Too bad. Really. We have 4 of them in production and they are great machines. But I've read some pretty nice stuff about the Promise boxes, so maybe it's for the better.
Now Apple can concentrate more on iPhones and nanos...


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