In 30 months, Apple's xServe RAID storage has put the company on the map with a well-regarded storage system. At 76,000 terabytes in that period, the company has clearly found a nice kicker to the growing xServer business. The fourth generation of xServe storage products was announced this week.
Apple says 40% of the xServe RAID systems are shipped to customers who have no other Apple computer products. That's a lot of market pull made on word-of-mouth. There are many customers with over 100 TB installed. With system-level pricing at around $1.86 a gigabyte, Apple is seeing rapidly expanded uses of midline pools of storage for disk-disk-tape, local storage redundancy, and remote online backup. I see this trend only accelerating.
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