Where to buy a xserve RAID drive module in the UK?

Hi does anyone know anywhere that still sells xserve RAID drive modules for a 2005 RAID
we have 400 GB drives but can use a 500 GB because we have the latest firmware.
If modules are unavailable can I take the failed drive out of the module and replace with a new one.
The current drive is a Hitachi Deskstar HDS724040KLAT80

Just sold our complete xsan setup (42 400Gb modules included) for 2500 euro... (so 60 euro per drive) and that included 4 XServes as well

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Finding replacement xServe RAID Drive Modules for sale

I've just started a new IT job and inherited an xServe (snow leopard) and xServe RAID
I'm not an expert on either. I've some experience with OS X Server, but I've never been a full on server admin.
One drive is dead. I believe they're 500GB units in the first six bays.
I also believe this is the most recent xServe RAID hardware. Purchased in 2008 or so.
So, first, where on earth would I buy a replacement?
And assuming that's possible, what are people's suggestions for buying drive modules for the other bays, and replacement parts for the xServe itself (power suppies, etc.).
Thanks!

first of all i don't have experience with proprietary Apple products, but typically i believe you can buy any hard drive so long as the interface is compatible (SATA or SAS for example) and the size is the same. there should not be a need to buy 'special Apple xserve hard drives'. if you buy a drive larger than 500 GB then the extra space beyond 500 GB will just be ignored depending on the type of RAID you have setup. definitely do not buy a disk smaller than 500 GB. pull out the disk that is bad and see what the make/model is. my xserve uses Seagate drives so you could probably just search eBay or whatever for the model number of the drive and use that. the hard drive should be able to be removed from the caddy so you don't really need a whole new "module".
as for power supplies those are proprietary and will need to be purchased thru apple or somewhere else like eBay, just search for the part number...

Xserve G5 Drive Module meets Apple Store Lunacy

Dear Apple,
I don't understand... you force me to buy drive modules from you which I'm cool with. But you only give me a 74GB option?!? Seriously. Program me a drive larger than 74GB and make me pay a fortune for it, but don't leave me with only one option and nothing else. This really discourages me from wanting to buy more Xserves.
I feel very like a very disappointed customer right now.
Michael

Here is the link to the 750GB SATA for Xserve G5 from the Apple store:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=6C0 4E172&nplm=MA504G/A
But the bottom of the page states this:
Apple Drive Module Serial ATA Compatibility: These Serial ATA Apple Drive Modules are qualified for use only with the new Intel-based Xserve. For Xserve RAID or older Xserve (G4 based) products, use the Apple Drive Module with Ultra ATA (parallel) support only. For Xserve G5 systems, use the previous generation Serial ATA drive modules.
The problem being experienced by the original poster is what brought me here! I went nuts yesterday trying to track down just what drive modules are available for the Xserve G5!
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Good article from Tom Yager on Xserve RAID drives

Since "Why is an Apple module more expensive than a drive I can buy at CompUSA?" is a very common question here, this is good background:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2007/02/applesxserver.html

Also are there any issues with upgrading to 750GB drives?
In addition to the drives, you'll also need to upgrade the firmware on the RAID. If you're running the same firmware as when you bought the unit then it'll only support drives up to the then-current maximum - in this case it sounds like 250GB.
Installing the latest firmware will give you support for larger drives.

Xserve Raid Not Showing all Drives Empty - No Green Lights on Xserve Raid Drives

I have an Xserve Raid. I recently set it up with my Xserve server with fiber cables and now when the Xserve Raid system boots and starts all the drives show as empty in the Raid monitor. Not sure if I have something configured wrong and I think I shut it down incorrectly before I got it hooked up right. When I first got it I was able to see the lights on all the drives but now it boots but no drives show up at all. I have fiber cables to the host Xserve machine and the Xserve Raid plugged into the network with only 1x ethernet cables (not 2 if that makes a difference). When I try to manage the Xserve Raid all drives show as empty even though all the 500GB drives are plugged in. Not seeing any green lights when the Xserve raid boots indicates something is up. I reset the controller cards to stock with the paper clip to factory settings. Does anyone have any ideas on what to try. Anyone have this issue? I haven't found any discussions except one that had a single side of drives go down because of a bad controller card. My Xserve Raid shows no drives at all. Any help is appreciated.

Expansion is a 2 step process: First, you expand the array. Second, you merge the slices. The documentation is clear on step #2, but the GUI doesn't FORCE you to do it. However, it is necessary.
If you did both steps, try rebooting your host and see if it picks up the changed size. It does work... the usual issue though is growing the file system to recognize the additional size. On Linux, I can't help you.

Xserve G5 Drive Module Activity LED problem

So, I have little problem with our Xserve G5.
Are there 3 HD's in the Xserve in RAID 5 config. The activity led (blue) of the first modul is not show any activity. But the megaraid is show that everything is all right with all of ADM's. The green/red led is show that, the 1st ADM is working fine (Green light), too. (There are 500 GB capacity on 3pcs 250 GB ADM in RAID 5)
Only the OSX Server was on the raid disks. We have an Xserve Raid for the storage.
Is it possible to really not activity on disk disk? Or the led is wrong... Or is there a contact problem betwen the ADM and the Xserve?
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If I pop out the ADM handy, the blue LED is blinking.
As I think the LED is working...
As I said, that I pulled out the ADM from its holder and the raid config was collapsed.
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I want to buy 2 MSI-478 Retention Modules for the K8T Master2-FAR

Where to buy P4-478 Retention Modules for the K8T Master2-FAR? I would like to have a Choice in heatsinks, I know that 478 clipon heatsinks may work, But Where do I buy the Retention Modules for this motherboard, Since real 478 Retention Modules are worthless when It concerns this K8T Master2-FAR motherboard(I bought one and It's in a really cheap and flimsy case), I ask as 603 heatsinks are mainly for servers and aren't too useful to Me, A new one that I've seen looks great, But It's passive, has 4 heatpipes, Is about 80x80mm in width and has no place for fans(bummer). I'd love to use the SP-94, But again It won't work as It is a bolt on 478 and as such It won't work, I'd also like to use a pair of Thermalright XP90(XP92?) heatsinks, But those may not fit as They use 92mm fans, So far the only heatsink that would be workable is the SLK-947U as It has the 478 Clips, I have one on one of My 2 other PCs(Nforce2 chipsets), 80mm fans would still be the max, But at least the heatsink would not be too bad. I just need the 2 retention modules with the 603 hole spacing that MSI made, On the other hand being the screws use a 3mm thread, I should be able to find those elsewhere, Somewhere. I just need one pair I might add. This is cause others have reported that Xeon water blocks do not fit(This was over on forums.2cpu.com).

Bump...
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Where to buy TS-L633P DVD drive

Hey guys, just like the title says, I'm in the market for a new DVD burner for my laptop.
I have a P305D-S8834 Part number PSPD8U-005002
I currently have a TSST Corp. CDDVDW TS-L633P ATA Device (that's what it says in device manager)
But for the life of me I haven't been able to find a site where I can buy one.
I will mention to all that it will burn CDs just fine, will begin to burn DVDs just fine but at about 30% into the burn I get an I/O error and also sometimes get a similar I/O error during a reboot, so I'm pretty sure I need a replacement unless someone can tell me something else to do. I have already updated it's firmware and also updated my BIOS and the problem persists.
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Xserve Raid Drive

Hello everyone, im going to need an answer pretty fast because im going to need to make a decision today. Can any PATA Drive (lets say a 320gb) work in the xraid? I know its stupid but im new to this

If the SMART will talk to the XRAID it will work. There are drives that "know to work" so people usually stick with those to save buying 16 drives that turn out not to work. Search the other threads for specific drive models but they are getting scarce to non-existent in certain sizes. There was a model 500GB drives that are still being produced that a couple of people reported to work recently.
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G5 xserve drive module

I've looked through posts concerning the use of OEM drives. I'm curious, & I've seen conflicting reports. Has anyone been successful putting 750 gig HD's in the G5 xserve drive modules? I found some empty sleds, but I've also seen the claim that the xserve will only accept drives up to 500 gig. Any real life experience out there?

You may of already seen/tried this, but if you do a software update on your Xserve, there was a recent "RAID Admin" update that enabled support for "750GB Xserve RAID Drive Modules".
I do not have any 750GB drives in any Xserve presently (using other machines and ReadyNAS for that)...but I would imagine that the modules do support the drives now based on that update, and other OSX Server updates.
I will be trying that size out soon, but no reason at the present.

Mac Pro + XServer RAID + FCP2 + Configuration

Hello all. This is my first post here.
I will soon buy a MacPro por video editing on Final Cut Pro 2 and I was wondering if you could help sort out if the configuration I've chosen is the best.
I'll show you the configurations I thought first:
*Mac Pro*
- Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
- 4GB (4 x 1GB)
- Mac Pro RAID Card
- 2 x 500gb HDD
- ATI Radeon X1900 XT
- 20" Apple Cinema Display + 23" Apple Cinema HD Display
- Dual-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCIe
*XServer RAID*
- 2000GB ADM (4x500GB Ultra ATA)
- Cache Battery Back-up Modules
- Dual-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCIe
My idea:
A) The MAC Pro I'll be used for 3D rendering and video editing. I'll configure the 2x500GB with RAID1 (mirroring) for a fail safe env, leaving my with 500GB of available space
B) XServer RAID will be connected directly to the Mac Pro (for now) via the fiber optic cards and we'll provided additional storage.
C) For projects stored on the XServer RAID (videos for example) I must be able to access and edit directly with FCP2 without having to pass it to the Mac Pro
D) I was thinking of using RAID5 for XServer RAID configuration leaving me with 2.64 x 500GB (as described on support faqs) = 1.3 TB of disk space with a reasonable fail safe environment (RAID5 with 3 drives allows one drive to fail and offers a good recovery rate).
OK. My questions:
1) Is my MacPro config enough for FCP2 + 3D Rendering ?
2) Can I use the XServer RAID directly with Mac Pro or do I need aditional software / hardware?
3) Can I connect the fiber optic from one board to the other without using the router? (on google the answers I found were very vague...)
4) Is the RAID5 the best choice (in terms of performance vs data recovery) for video editing. The RAID5 specs states that random writes to disk are slower that other RAID configs. Is RAID 50 (5+0) a better choice?
5) I opted for the 4 HDD config on XServer but I could change to a 7 HDD config for a similar total space.
I'm sorry for the long post, but I can't find anywhere suitable information about this questions.
Hope to hear from you.
Thanks in advance!

We have a ton of Xserve's and Xserve RAID's at my work. As of right now they're all directly connected to our servers with Fibre Channel cables (NOT fiber optic, totally different animal.) We finally just bought our first Fibre Channel switch to hookup five 10.5TB RAIDS and a huge tape loader for backups. The RAID's work perfectly when directly connected and are very fast. The only reason that you would need a Fibre Channel switch is if you want multiple machines to be able to access the array without using network shares.
I really don't think that just four drives will give you the performance that you're looking for. In order to get good performance out of a RAID5 you NEED as many spindles as you can get. If you're stuck to a budget if would probably go to smaller drives but get more of them. I think you've already discovered this but if you want to do a RAID5+0, you'll need to populate drives on both sides of the RAID as they are physically seperated.
As far as I know, you can only get Xserve RAID Drive Modules from Apple as they do some pretty intensive testing on every drive before they ship. You can't even buy empty modules, you can buy blanks but they don't include the required electronics.

Data Rate from XServe Raid

Hello all,
I have what I thought would be a simple question, but I've found nothing anywhere to answer it.
We have a new G5 Quad and an XServe Raid connected via Fibre Channel with 4 500 GB drive modules. Our Video capture card is the Decklink Extreme SD, but my employer has found a firm that will transfer our Cinealta HDCam tapes at full HD onto hard drives for transfer into our system. He then wants to work in full 10 bit uncompressed 4:2:2 HD (1080i) for editing.
I have tried several RAID configurations and used the Decklink Drive Speed Test Utility and found that the fastest data rate I am able to achieve is around 75 MB/sec (using RAID 0), which, according to the utility is only good for about 15 fps at 10 bit 4:2:2 1080.
So my question is this: How many Xserve Raid drive modules striped as RAID 0 would we need to achieve the 182.3 MB/sec data rate (according to the FCP manual) required to edit in full 10 bit 4:2:2 at 1080i at 24-30 fps? Is it simply a matter of doubling the 4 we now have? or is there some other calculation that would be required?
Thanks for the help

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Figure conservatively that each fully loaded controller (7 drives) in an Xserve RAID will give you 80 to 100 MB/sec. 160 to 200 MB/sec for both controllers fully loaded.
With an Xserve RAID, RAID 5 will give you almost the same bandwidth as RAID 0, so there's insufficient reason to forego the file protection of RAID 5.
Then, when you stripe the two sides together in Disk Utility, you should be getting more than 200 MB/sec, enough for a single stream of uncompressed 1080i, but probably not enough for two streams. It depends.

Proper drive modules for a G5 Xserve?

Hi all,
We need up upgrade the drive modules in a G5 Xserve. I checked in the apple store, and the 750 GB SATA modules have this line:
"These Serial ATA Apple Drive Modules are qualified for use only with the new Intel-based Xserve. For Xserve RAID or older Xserve (G4 based) products, use the Apple Drive Module with Ultra ATA (parallel) support only. For Xserve G5 systems, use the previous generation Serial ATA drive modules."
The problem is, I don't see this "previous generation Serial ATA drive modules" anywhere. Similarly, the Ultra ATA drives have this line:
"These Ultra ATA drives are qualified for use with Xserve RAID only. For Xserve G5 or Intel-based products, use the Apple Drive Module with Serial ATA only. "
My question is, what drive modules should I be using?!
Also, does anyone think Apple will be coming out with 1 TB modules in the near future, and if so, what are the odds of compatibility with the G5 Xserves?

Hey guys,
A heads up.. I've had 4 flavors of SATA ADM:
1. 80GB SATA Hitachi (xserve g5 gen)
2. 80GB SATA Seagate (intel gen)
3. 250GB SATA (xserve g5 gen)
4. 750GB SATA (intel g5 gen)
Needless to say, all 4 work in either the xserve g5 or intel, and either can boot as long as the partioning is setup appropriately (guid or apple). With that said, there actually is a GB size difference between the 2 80GB models, which does make life complicated if you have an only xserve g5 and want to get a new 80GB to make a raid 1 (either the solution is to look for an older model on ebay or to wipe both drives).

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