Thank you all for the response.
On 6/28/05, Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 6/27/05, Declan McQuay <email@hidden> wrote:
> > I have an XRAID unit connected to a G4 XServe. At the moment one of
> > the network ports in the XRAID is connected directly to the XServe. If
> > I connect another PC up to the other network port, can it see the
> > XRAID and how it is configured and be able to get data off it via the
> > network connection or not?
>
> As Valerio said, no - Xserve RAID uses fibre channel for moving data
> about, because it has much much greater throughput than Ethernet (the
> port is 10/100BASE-T, which is at least 20-40 times slower than the
> fibre channel).
>
> You can provide file services from your Xserve to PCs though, enabling
> them to access the Xserve RAID indirectly (albeit at slower network
> speeds). See the Mac OS X Server documentation for information on how
> to do this.
>
> Depending on your needs, you might also want to consider a SAN.
>
> -- Finlay
>
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