VTRAK and Apple
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In February this year, Apple conferred EOL status on Xserve RAID and announced the replacement: Promise VTRAK RAID.
Last month, I needed an additional RAID unit and decided to order one of the new Promise boxes. It arrived a few weeks later, FOB Taiwan.
I now (finally) have the unit up and running, configured as a 4.09 terabyte RAID5 slice with a single 750GB spare. It is attached via the 4GB fibre card to one of the first-gen Intel Xserves (two dual-core Xeons) running Leopard Server 10.5.2 (the only release that supports these new VTRAK units). Since three to four weeks elapsed between my unboxing the VTRAK and successfully formatting it with Disk Utility, I thought I’d pass along a few notes on the experience (in hopes they’ll help someone else avoid the headaches).
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