alexander Posted January 5, 2005 Report Posted January 5, 2005 these are very recent news, actually, as i'm typing this, these news are 2 hours old. Anyways, Apple has begun to ship their Xsan, a high performance, enterprise SAN (Storage Area Network) file system. The unit is priced at $999 per client and per server.Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system for Mac OSX. The unit lets you share up to 16TB in size on a high-speed Fibre Channel network. An impressive 64 systems can read/write to the system simultaneously. anyways here's the link to the article: http://www.datafuse.net/page.php?news=437 Quote
Tormod Posted January 5, 2005 Report Posted January 5, 2005 Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system for Mac OSX. The unit lets you share up to 16TB in size on a high-speed Fibre Channel network. An impressive 64 systems can read/write to the system simultaneously. Something for my home music studio, then. :) Quote
alexander Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Posted January 6, 2005 i'm really impressed with their ability to read/write at the same time, wonder when this thing will be ported to linux... Quote
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