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I’m looking to upgrade the internal storage in my 2008 Intel XServe, but I really don’t want to pay $549.00 for a 2TB Apple Drive Module (and I’d really need three of them). Does anyone know the kind of hard drive(s) that Apple uses in their ADM’s? I know the model number will probably be slightly off, I’m simply trying to get as close to the real thing as possible.
I think I’ve got it. Instead of thinking about it in abstract terms, it helped to actually engage ye old brain and think about the possibilities: That I know of, Apple has used WD, Seagate, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Samsung for their drives.Of these, I’ve seen WD, Seagate, and Hitcahi in the XServe & XServe RAID.WD RE3’s are used in the ‘09 1TB ADM’s, maybe not exclusively. There’s an ‘09 XServe that was delivered to my work a few weeks ago and that’s what was used in it.My ‘08 came with 3 1TB Hitachi HD72101KLA330’s as mentioned above.After looking at each of the possible vendors’ enterprise-level drives (even though the ones used in mine are technically desktop-level, which is kind of surprising to me), I did a few searches based on the model numbers of the drives that Apple would probably use, Hitachi’s 2TB SATA 3Gb/s in particular (HUA722020ALA330), and I found a link to a Google Groups thread that kind of confirms it:http://groups.google.com/group/macenterp… Tada, hopefully solved, at least in this case.
England Green can I check whether you’re using an Xserve with hardware raid or the software mirror “raid”
Ian, My 2006 Xserve running Lion Server is configured with a internal 1TB boot drive and an internal 2TB drive. The 3rd bay is empty. I do not have either software or hardware RAID set up on this server. As I mentioned, I have a 2TB USB drive running TimeMachine backups and a Drobo Gen 2 4 bay via Firewire 800. I have 3 Xserves and they are all set up like this (all 2006 models) but without the Drobo. Hope this helps.
