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The target market for Xserve and Xsan included creatives (video servers, render farms, etc.), education, and science/biotech. Note that the Xserve was just the
by CharlesW 3y ago
The target market for Xserve and Xsan included creatives (video servers, render farms, etc.), education, and science/biotech.
Note that the Xserve was just the last of an interesting history of Apple servers. I'm especially fond of this 1996 behemoth: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-apple-network-servers-all-too.html https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-apple-network-server...
- chx 3y agoFun story: thanks to Xsan you can buy Thunderbolt SAN devices from various vendors. Now, the Areca ARC-8050T3 SAN with its 9 Thunderbolt inputs has become insanely popular on movie / commercial sets. Drop it into a 4U rolling case and it becomes the motherlode where everyone, no less than nine people at the same time can just plug a Macbook in without any problems, configuration, maintenance or anything. Just works. It pushed Areca to make optical TB3 cables, in fact, now people don't need to stay so close to the motherlode.