Apple has quietly canceled their Xserve RAID and instead recommending the purchase of Promise RAID instead. More information on Promise RAID.

Apple announced an all new Xserve on Tuesday. The new Xserve features a 64-bit Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” 5400 series processor at speeds up to 3.0GHz, 3TB of internal storage, 32GB of 800MHz memory, and a fast 1600MHz system bus. Standard Configuration includes:

• 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processor
• 1600MHz frontside bus and 12MB L2 cache
• 2GB memory (800MHz DDR2 fully buffered DIMM ECC)
• 80GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
• Built-in graphics with 64MB RAM
• Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard Unlimited-Client Edition

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Introducing the all new Xserve from Apple, featuring two 64-bit Dual-Core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” microprocessors, eight fully buffered DIMM slots, two PCI Express expansion slots, three hard drive bays with support for SATA or SAS Apple Drive Modules, one optical drive, two USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 800 ports, one FireWire 400 port, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, one DB9 serial port, one 650W power supply with support for dual redundant power supplies, rack mounting rails, integrated lights-out management hardware with Server Monitor software, and an unlimited-client license of Mac OS X Server. Continue reading Dual-Core Xserve

Introducing the all new Xserve RAID from Apple. Up to 7TB in 14 hot-swap drives. High-performance 2Gb Fibre Channel, starting at just $5,999. Continue reading Xserve RAID