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I dont even know what that is in the picture, but whatever it is, its beautiful. My inner geek sensed a disturbance in the Force when I saw it, so it must be good.
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@Curves: its one of 2 apple servers in the world, located at apple (the others at steve job's house)
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@Curves: Those are rack-mounted Apple Xserve RAID chassis'.
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@Curves: thats a stack of apple xserve raids. and yes they are pretty. sadly they dont make them anymore.
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@Curves: Those are a huge rack of XServe RAIDs. They're made out of aluminum and weigh a ton, as well as support 14 hot-swappable HDDs. I think they support about 10.5 TB of data. Costed about $6k. It got discontinued some time ago, but here's the successor:
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@Curves: I've got a whole wall of racks full of them and they're very pretty. Sadly, they were never quite as fast as they should have been.
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@Curves: It's a rack of Apple XServe RAID "SAN containers". I use the quotes since they had some limitations for use in a traditional FC fabric network, they were more designed for single host use.
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@-=[ArcSine]=-: Whatever, its quite beautiful. I was a guest at a Cisco office last year, and they had this gigantic piece of equipment in a glass room. I have no idea what it was (past my comprehension) but It was so georgeous (in a hardware kinda way) that I wanted to take it home and put it in my lving room. Its was about all I would have been able to get in there, but for a gorgeous as it was, it would have been worth it. (Can you imagine my excitement at being in a building FULL of Cisco engineers?)
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