The market is not built the wishes of individual customers. Do you think that at the turn of 2010 and 2011, the first from the Cupertino entered an order to cease production servers, Xserve , because they did not buy? Not at all. Their buying, but sales have been negligible - by the standards of a large corporation. This does not mean that Apple server solutions were completely unused. Potential customers is small, but at the expense may well be fed either small firms or their separate departments. Feeding, for example, the office Mac Mini Vault, whose data center is entirely composed of "kids" Mac Mini . Feeding and California Sonnet Technologies .It is offered to pay attention to her latest creation.
Xserve format was unusual when compared with the products of Apple, and a completely standard when talking about the back-end systems. He was mounted inside a 19-inch telecommunication rack. It looked like this:
But now the Xserve does not buy, so Sonnet offer to replace him with the Mac mini they have developed a hardware extension. They call him xMac Mini Server . This is more than just a housing for mounting to the same standard 19-inch rack. This "smart" building. From mini and it really turns into a somewhat simplified version of the Xserve.
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Inside xMac mini Server is installed on two discrete controller card PCI Express 2.0 - a full-sized one and one half dimensional, and the controller has its own power supply, along with a separate cooling system. Ask how it is connected to the Mac mini? Through the Thunderbolt! We know that the interface is fast enough, and thus no loss in speed of data transmission between the cards and the computer is not expected. On the back cover removed without exception ports Mac mini, including myself Thunderbolt, he duplicated the benefit of developers. The bottom line is we have a real server, though very limited in hard drive capacity. Should this (excluding the cost of the mini) 1295 dollars.
On the other hand, speaking of the tank - no one bothers to connect the RAID-system, as in the images above.
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