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It was overpriced and didn’t have a lot of software. That's not how I remember it at all. Apple XServers cost about the same as the competition and the XServer
by dagw 2y ago
It was overpriced and didn’t have a lot of software.
That's not how I remember it at all. Apple XServers cost about the same as the competition and the XServer RAID was a bargain compared to similar hardware offerings at the time. And although I never used the software, based on the demos I saw from their sales team, it looked really nice and I never heard anybody complain about it. The aversion wasn't price or software, it was just that people didn't really trust Apple support and service.
- kortilla 2y agoWtf are you talking about? If you never used any software that ran on it, you’re completely unqualified to evaluate it.
- dagw 2y agoMy point is that I worked at a couple of different places that where considering XServer RAID setups, and as part of that I read everything I could find, attended live presentations of the hardware and talked to people online who where using XServers. And in that process found no reason to write off the hardware of purely software grounds. If you worked extensively with the software and found it a deal breaker, then I'll defer to your experience, but at the time I didn't run into anybody with anything overly bad to say about the software.