Youd here need something akin to that xserve computer, and mac os x server software, to get from the ethernet to the fibre channel, and to the xserve raid storage. It had up to 4 ide hard disk drives and an ati video card. The xserves remaining major flaw will soon be rectified. Lsi dual fiber fibre channel pcie card lsi7204ep for apple. Drives must be either all serial ata sata or all serial attached scsi sas drives. I upgraded my xserve g5 to a hardware pci raid card and three 250gb drive modules. Superdrive, 32 gb of ram and the new xserve raid card. The mac pro raid card offers improved storage performance and data protection to your mac pro system up to 553mbs of sequential read performance in raid 0. When youve finished installing the xserve, youll be referred to the xserve user guide for information about starting up the xserve for the first time. Whats more, xserve raid is qualified for use in mac, windows, linux, solaris, netware, and mixedplatform environments. It was replaced by the mac pro server and the mac mini server. Xserve raid is a massstorage device that was offered by apple inc.
The xserve came with one or two powerpc g4 processors running at 1. On april 2, 2003 the xserve raid was introduced, providing a. Xserve is a line of rack unit computers designed by apple inc. Anyone able to create a workaround wo getting a 3rd party card. Apple xservemac pro raid card battery repair ifixit.
Starting up the xserve 12 turning on the xserve for the first time 12 configuring the server software configuring the lightsout management port. Due to the cooling requirements of the processor, the xserve g5 models only support three hot swappable apple drive modules compared to four in the xserve g4. When they fail after a year or two in service you can bet the youll fork out to replace it that the cell isnt dead, but instead has got itself into a stuck state where the raid card is confused about what to do with it. Xserve supports up to 720 gb of internal storage, one or two 1. There have been as far as i am aware, three main types of adm module, the original ata type as used in the xserve g4 and xraid products, the sata model as used in the xserve g5, and intel xserve models, and sas serial attach storage model also used in xserve g5 and xserve intel. Xserve or mac g4 tower 800mhz or more with mac os x v10. Xserve cluster node, xserve g5, xserve g5 january 2005 powermac g5. Seven months in, it revved the xserve to include 1. Xserve offers bestinclass storage, with up to 480gb on four hotplug ata100 drives, and bestinclass networking with standard dual gigabit ethernet ports.
Anyway to enable hot swapping in mac pros with apple raid card. Xserve raid held up to 14 hotswappable ultraata hard drives, and had a capacity of 10. I got a complete xserve raid minus drives for cheap lets look at it jays video a quick teardown of the xserve raid. Apple 300gb sas drive modules are supported with the mac pro raid card late 2007 and xserve raid card early 2007. Iometer testing of raw disk throughput on xserve raid in both mac os x v10. Dan apple xservemac pro raid card battery repair guide id. Power mac g4, power mac g5, xserve raid and apple fibre channel pcix cards. Apple mac pro 1,15,1 ssd controller pcie card upgrade kit sata iii raid 10. The xserve series, apples most heavyduty server line since the network server models, combined fast architectures in compact spacesaving cases designed to be placed in industrystandard racks. For those of you who already have a g4 version of the. The firmware which i am using is the same as on the firmtek cards, and the mac is quite happy booting from sata drives connected to the card. The members of our apple support community can help answer your question. The xserve ran mac os x server, which bolted the above services and more to.
To learn about the mac os x server software installed on the xserve, see mac os x. Xserve supports up to 480 gb of internal storage, one or two 1 ghz g4 cpus, dual gigabit ethernet, raid, hot swappable drives, and remote management while running mac os x server. Adaptec 2930 ultra scsi card pci controller for mac pre owned. Important two people are required to unpack, lift, or mount the xserve raid system in a rack. Connecting the system to xserve or a power mac g4 39. Although the xserve was the first apple series to be rackmountable, the first rackmountable macs were from long forgotten mac clone maker marathon computer. In march 2003 they introduced the xserve cluster nodes. Although apple eliminated the xserve line, software from apple can turn any mac into a server see os x server. Updating drive sleds in a g4 xserve mac os x hints. Regarding ernies query about apple drive modules for 20062008 xserve models. If you are going to look at buying server drives, like apple drive modules, you may as well look at an xserve itself, as those drives can cost you a few hundred bucks each. As we went to press, apple shipped an addon card that provides hardware raid support for the xserve family, which is available through. Chapter 8, planning raid storage for the xserve raid system, on page 63 in addition, see the procedural instructions in the document using raid admin to manage the xserve raid system, which is included on the cd that came with your system. Do not attempt to lift or move the system without help from a second person.
Astonished at the lack of drives available for the old g4 xserves from. Dec 01, 2019 i got a complete xserve raid minus drives for cheap lets look at it jays video a quick teardown of the xserve raid. In the meantime, ordinary power macintosh g3 and g4 models were rebranded as macintosh server g3 and macintosh server g4 with some alterations to the hardware, such as added gigabit ethernet cards, ultrawide scsi cards, extra large and fast hard drives etc. Get accidental damage coverage and 247 priority access to apple experts. Apple has announced their new fibre channel xserve raid. There is a sticker on the underside of the raid card that says xserve raid with some asian characters, and a1248 i dont see a1248 anywhere when referring to xserve raid cards i see a1246 online, but what is my card. Xsan has been vetted for use on xserve g4, xserve g5, power mac g4, power mac g5, xserve raid and apple fibre channel pcix cards. For information about starting up the xserve for the first time, configuring the server software, and using the xserve, see the xserve user guide on the admin tools disc that comes with the xserve.
Xserve or mac g4 tower 800mhz or more with mac os x. Importantly, the controllers were independent, but not redundant. Its dual 1 ghz powerpc g4 processors each have 2mb of double data rate ddr l3 cache, and xserve is the first 1u server to use ddr sdram memory with up to 2gb capacity. The first model included a graphics card and optical drive, but they were dropped in the secondgeneration xserve cluster node intended for server farms. Xserve article about xserve by the free dictionary. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Get certified as an apple technical coordinator with this seven. Find great deals on ebay for xserve raid and server.
Xserves sold before august 24, 2002 shipped with mac os x. Raid utility application on a computer with a mac pro raid card or xserve raid card. Sep 27, 2005 you could always get a sata card for the powermac g4, which will give you a better performing drive to boot off of. Apple ships xsan, upgrades xserve g5 computerworld. Due to the crossplatform support available, users do not need a mac to administer the xserve raid.
Some places suggest its just a drive interconnect backplane, other markings insist its a raid card. Btw i will be selling two new unused 80 gig xserve g5 drives on ebay next week. Underneath the pretty aluminium box, apples raid card batteries are just bogstandard lithium polymer cells with some control gear. Xserve models were powered by g4 and g5 powerpc cpus and later intel xeon chips. Lsi dual 4gb fiber fibre channel pcie card lsi7204ep for apple xservemac pro. Dw apparently does not run properly on a raid xserve so it appears that one. As i mentioned, hardwarebased raid is on the way, and i expect that the forthcoming tiger release of mac os x 10. Ive seen xserve g4 s on ebay before at reasonable prices. On november 5, 2010, apple quietly announced that the xserve line would no longer be sold after january 31, 2011. For those who want to use xserve as a workstation, apple offers the high performance ati radeon 8500 4x agp video card and all the g4 power theyre used to. Apple powermac g3 g4 firewire 400 3 port expansion card. Xserve at a glance 8 xserve at a glancefront panel 10 xserve at a glanceback panel 12 chapter 2. The xserve raid system is designed to be mounted in a rack. Adaptec 2930 ultra scsi card pci controller for mac.
Power mac g5, power mac g5 early 2005, power mac g5 june 2004, power mac g5 late 2004 powermac g4. There have been as far as i am aware, three main types of adm module, the original ata type as used in the xserve g4 and x raid products, the sata model as used in the xserve g5, and intel xserve models, and sas serial attach storage model also used in xserve g5 and xserve intel models. Apple impresses with new xserve hardware infoworld. The apple xserve is a rack mounted server, first introduced in 2002. In the meantime, ordinary power macintosh g3 and g4 models were rebranded as macintosh server g3 and macintosh server g4 with some alterations to.
For the past two weeks i have been the proud user of apples newest assault on the enterprise. It went through a number of upgrades until 2010, when it was discontinued. Serial ata info mac pro raid card and xserve raid card. Power mac g4 fw 800, power mac g4 mirrored drive door 2003, power mac g4 mirrored drive doors, power mac g4 quicksilver 2002. Apple xservemac pro raid card battery repair if you still operate xserves, you will undoubtably have had to replace all their raid card batteries at least once. Introduced in 2002, it was apples first designated server hardware design since the apple network server in 1996. Ive seen xserve g4s on ebay before at reasonable prices.
I upgraded my xserve g5 to a hardware pci raid card and three. Unlike the raid controller used in the xserve g5 or the mac pro, it does. Disk controller e raid card apple acquisti online su ebay. Sell the xserve raid storage box to somebody else that is already using fibre channel storage, and buy or build a purposebuilt nas widget. Genuine service parts for your mac machine including all macbook pro parts, imac parts, macpro parts, xserve parts, macbook air parts. Never even started up the xserve g5 with the 80gb drives.
Complete xserve technical specs are below although the xserve was the first apple series to be rackmountable, the first rackmountable. The original xserve s specs may look laughable now, but at the time, it was the most powerful mac ever built, with dual 1 ghz g4 processors, 266 mhz ddr sdram, four ata100 hard drives, two gigabit ethernet ports and two pci slots. With a mac pro raid card or xserve raid card installed in your computer, you can use raid utility to turn your computers internal disks into storage volumes based on raid redundant array of independent disks schemes that improve performance and. Guide to flashing pc sil3112 sata cards for mac macrumors. So far it has been completely reliable, although for some reason it takes a bit longer to start up i guess it scans the pci bus for bootable controllersdrives last. Also like the g4, the copy of mac os x server that came with the xserve g5 included unlimited licenses and remote management tools. Apple xserve raid hard drive controller 6034086 ca1009 module.
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