Apple Upgraded Xserve, Reduced Price and Released RAID

The Apple Xserve servers now have 1.33 GHz G4s and cost $2799 for the single CPU model and $3799 for the dual CPU model, down $200 each.

"Just six months after we shipped the first Xserve, we’re now offering more power and more storage at an even lower price," said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Xserve is already in use at over 100 Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of universities and schools across the country, and we’re making it even better based on their feedback."

The Xserve RAID is the first 3U rack storage system with a massive 2.5TB storage capacity, blazing performance of up to 400 MB/s and the industry’s most aggressive price point of just over $4 (US) per gigabyte.

"Xserve RAID is an industry breakthrough product, offering up to 2.5TB of high-performance redundant storage at just over $4 per gigabyte—a fraction of the cost of storage from Dell, HP, Sun or EMC," said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Xserve RAID features dual independent RAID controllers for redundant storage, a dual 2Gb Fibre Channel interface for ultra-high performance, and dual power supplies for peace of mind, all starting at just $5,999."

Here is the Xserve press release and the RAID press release.