Apple Apple Xserver Pron

I agree firehed, I'd probably buy one if it was priced right.

I've currently got a dual hard disc firewire enclosure with 1TB in but I'd really like something that is networked and expandable long term.

I think the 1tb model is aimed at people who want the raid, but don't fancy paying apple prices for hard discs

Base xserve with 1tb is £4,349.00 , 14 x 750GB discs are 2996.98

Which is a total of £7345.98

For some reason the UK store isn't showing the option for having 750gb drives, but the version with 14x500gb (7TB) is £9,399.00 so you save £2000 buying the drives yourself! And get more space.

 

It's over $12k for the 7TB model - we only show the 500GB disks too. Still, if my rough conversions are right, you're paying about 50% more than we do for the 1TB model, and something like 20% more for the 7TB.

Just seems so stupid that all of these companies are pushing for the digital living room and all that when we don't have a proper consumer storage device. Maybe most people wouldn't see the value? I'd rather have a thin client (appleTV), appliance fileserver, and computer with more standard storage than a space-heavy computer that I need to leave on and can't move around anywhere for that same thin client any day.