PRESS RELEASE January 6, 2004

Delivers Incredible Price Performance & Support for Windows & Linux

MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO—January 6, 2004—Apple® today unveiled its new Xserve® RAID storage system, a 3U high-availability, rack storage system that now delivers a massive 3.5 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity, blazing performance of up to 210 MBps throughput and the industry’s most aggressive price for storage of just over $3 per gigabyte. With the new Xserve RAID, Apple has also introduced support for Windows and Linux-based computing environments, industry standard Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) connectors and broad industry support from 11 companies including Microsoft, VERITAS, Red Hat, Brocade and QLogic.
  • dual independent RAID controllers with 128MB cache per controller with support for up to 512MB cache per controller;
  • dual 2GB Fibre Channel SFP ports with 200 MBps throughput per channel;
  • four 250GB ATA/100 Apple Drive Modules;
  • 1TB RAID 0 total available storage; and
  • 8MB on-drive cache.

  • dual independent RAID controllers with 128MB cache per controller with support for up to 512MB cache per controller;
  • dual 2GB Fibre Channel SFP ports with 200 MBps throughput per channel;
  • seven 250GB ATA/100 Apple Drive Modules;
  • 1.75TB RAID 0 total available storage; and
  • 8MB on-drive cache.

  • dual independent RAID controllers with 128MB cache per controller with support for up to 512MB cache per controller;
  • dual 2GB Fibre Channel SFP ports with 200 MBps throughput per channel;
  • fourteen 250GB ATA/100 Apple Drive Modules;
  • 3.5TB RAID 0 total available storage; and
  • 8MB on-drive cache.