Existing users, 
Apple has one of the most agressively priced storage products on the market - the XRAID. 5.8TB for $14K. Great. So we buy one and the XSan software. Come to find out you need a XSan license for every computer that connects to the XRaid. We have 14. So what should be a $15K storage system is now a $29K storage system (not to mention the fiber channel switch).
My problem with this is that it does not state you need one license per server on the Apple Store XSan informational site - they omit that little $14,000 piece of information which you find out only after you purchase.
On top of that the license we do have keeps crashing our XServe.
Apple Xsan Filesystem
SAN file system, storage networking solution
Version: 2.2
Pricing model is insane
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: titanium9 Friday, March 11 2005 @ 01:47 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
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Pricing model is insane - lunddal
The last sentence in the very first paragraph: Order Xsan today for $999 per node. Perhaps you should have talked to someone who actually knows what a SAN is.Tuesday, April 26 2005 @ 03:31 AM PDT
Pricing model is insane - jasonb1
Are you kinding me?! We've been pricing SANs. An Xsan would also run us $15k more than the HP SAN we priced out. Also, something else Apple doesn't tell you is the Xsan isn't an ideal SAN solution for databases and email because of the metadata controllers. God forbid you have Windows, Linux or unix servers. You're looking at $1,000 more per server for the ADIC StorNext software.Wednesday, June 22 2005 @ 09:08 PM PDT
No, you are insane - Ilgaz
You actually sit here and speak about the price of a server filesystem.Imagine you work in Pixar (I don'T think so!) and you got petabyte level, $100 MILLION project under your hand.
Or, you are IT decision maker for a company big as techtracker and all your "money" relies on database in that level.
How much you would pay?
Jesus, you people don't have anything better to do than commenting about the stuff you will never see in your life and marking admin posts "unhelpful"?
Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 04:42 AM PDT
Pricing model is insane - Dames--2008
What do you expect to use this SAN for anyway? Editing? Render / asset distribution? No way you can do that with the HP solution and 14 workstations.We built an XSAN with 2 switches, 4 XRAIDS, a lot of fibre and 7 licenses of XSAN. We now have 5 HD Edit stations (where before we had 2) capable of sharing - instantly- all assets, 15 TBs of RAID lvl5 storage, online backup capabilities which dramtically reduce our insurance costs, and a render farm that can feed itself from a raid rather than our workstations. It's a phenominal value - and here is the important thing - if you need it.
Friday, September 30 2005 @ 10:53 PM PDT
Pricing model is insane - Dester Wallaboo
Have you ever priced SAN solutions? Apple's is by FAR the cheapest and most feature-rich solution in the entire marketplace. You won't get into a competitors solution with the same feature set for under $35,000.Reply to This
Monday, April 25 2005 @ 02:22 PM PDT