Special evolution of Apple products: Xserve
Perhaps one of the most unknown of Apple products has undoubtedly been the Xserve, the server world has been the highlight of Apple and it showed with a first attempt by the company between 1996 and 1997, when he presented the Apple Network Server. These computers were discontinued in just one year for their lack of sales.
The NPC was the Mac that had been modified to not accept any calls from Mac OS, running a modified version of the server operating system developed by IBM AIX. This system, based Unix running on modified plates of the Power Macintosh 9500. There were three models, ranging from 8,000 to 14,000 Euros. But after the disappointing sales, Apple will not resume business again on the servers until 2002, when after the acquisition of NeXT and OPENSTEP use to create the first Mac OS X Server led Apple to introduce the Xserve G4. Unboxing Xserve Intel Xserve G4 (# ) With the design of these servers occurs something similar to Apple’s PowerMac-range Mac Pro, its lines do not change over time and not led them to become outdated, is a design that is still valid and current, which leads to find ourselves in a manner clearly futuristic server. These G4 rode one or two processors at 1 GHz with 2GB of memory, three FireWire 400 ports and two USB 1.1. The maximum capacity of 480 GB was divided into four hard drive bays. This server was developed with Mac OX Server 10.2 Jaguar. In early 2003 he was presented a model with more capacity and to which he introduced the FireWire 800 and an optical drive. Xserve G5 On the sixth of January, 2004 was submitted with the Xserve G5, and as was the case with desktop models his biggest problem was overheating. G4 processors were removed by mounting the new G5 chip 64-bit PowerPC 970, also first included USB 2.0. Of four bays for hard drives, we now have only three given the tremendous heat emitting G5 processors were required to use the fourth to put heat sinks. The following year he would update the server to include a processor with higher clock speed to 2.3 GHz and up to 1.2TB of hard disk space. Intel Xserve The switch to Intel came and design Xserve continued without changing one iota, but, as enacted in its submission on the seventh of August 2006, its improved performance over their predecessors were more than significant. In this update, the graphics card came on-board, so it did not address any of the PCI slots on the server. At the beginning of 2009 was updated to include Nehalem processors and DDR3 memory, it is also added Nvidia graphics card to increase the maximum capacity up to 6TB device in conventional hard drives, adding a bay where you can enter a SSD hard to have him as a starter machine. Xserve RAID (# ) Xserver RAID module is introduced by Apple in February 2003 which we mounted 14-disc drives of 750 GB, perfect for keeping your data safe. With us will be possible Hardware RAID type 0, 1 or 5, to give some examples, we can create software raid groups of 10 or 50. This device could be used not only with Apple computers, could also be connected to workstations running Windows or Linux, since its Java tools could be installed on any OS including Mac OS X, Windows or Linux. The Xserve RAID was discontinued in 2008. Image | Photo JNewland In Applesfera | Special product development LO QUIERO TENGOLO
