I'm seeing the 1TB drive modules for early 2008 xserves have been
discontinued and are only available as service parts. Has anyone
tried the 1TB drive module designed for the early 2009 xserve in a
2008 xserve? I've been told by Apple that it 'might work' but hasn't
been tested and wouldn't be supported. I find it incredible that
hardware for a machine sold as new just 6 months ago would be so
quickly discontinued.
We've had success using the new 2009 drive modules in 2008 Intel
Xserves. The hardware in the carrier is definitely different... it now
uses a ribbon cable to attach to the drive (instead of independent
sata/power cables) and no longer has a visible clock crystal on the
interface board. Perhaps it's a sata->sas bridge?
I've not tried the 1TB module specifically, nor any as a startup
volume, but the new carrier does seem to allow disks that previously
didn't work (such as SSDs) to now function correctly in older Intel
Xserves.
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