What happened to Raid utility in mavericks?

I have an early 2008 mac pro with apple's hardware raid card. After doing Apples "free" upgrade, I no longer have raidutility under utilties... What happened?
I'm also stuck in and endless loop of appstore trying to update itunes and hp printer driver...
Sigh.
Jason

Hi Jason,
I would claim that the RAID Utility is really a System Administrator app, and not a user app. And with the end of the silver Mac Pro models and Xserve already out of production, the Apple Raid cards appear to be a thing of the past.
As I manage 14 Mac Pros, from Early 2008 through Mid 2012 models, I'll have to figure out other ways to perform the mirrored disk function. I think it will be some kind of cron job that runs rsync to keep pairs of disks synced...
I've just installed Mavericks on a test Early 2008 Mac Pro, with RAID card, upgrading from OS X 10.6.8. So far, everything seems to be going pretty well. Next week's project is to compile Macports, and install our standard set of Unix utilities. This will likely be a challenge, for such a new OS.
anyway, glad to help,
Roy

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