alexander Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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