| Product | Xserve G5 Server and Xserve RAID Array | Snap Server 4500 1TB | Sun StorEdge 3500 and SunFire V20z | Quantum Super Loader3 |
| Company | Apple | Adaptec | Sun | Quantum |
| Phone | 133 622 | 02 8875 7874 | 07 38390950 | |
| Website | www.apple.com.au | www.adaptec.com | www.sun.com/ storage |
www.quantum.com |
| RRP inc GST As Tested | AU$30,224 (5.6TB array + Xserve server) | AU$7469 | StorEdge - AU$18,650, Sunfire AU$3445 | AU$10,000 |
| Warranty & Support | 1 year. Upgrade to 3 years 4 hour response warranty is available for $1495 | 3 year hardware + 2 years on-site options | 3 year hardware, 9-5 onsite/phone, 8 hour response | 3 year. Upgrade to on-site is available. |
| Form factor | G5 Server 1U, RAID Array 3U | 1U | 2U | 2U |
| Number of Drive Bays Occupied/Free | 14 (two lots of seven) / 0 | 4/0 | 12 hot swappable | 1/1 |
| Hot Swap drive bays | Y | Y | Y | N |
| Drive Type and model | Hitachi Deskstar 400GB ATA | Maxtor Maxline Plus II 250GB ATA/133 | Fibre channel 146GB, 300GB, 36GB, 73GB | SuperDLT 600 |
| Drive RPM | 7200 | 7200 | 10,000 and 15,000 | N/A |
| Disk Connectivity | ATA | PATA | Fibre channel | Ultra SCSI 160 |
| Tested Array size / Maximum | 5.6TB (total of 14x400GB) | Raid 5, 4 x 250GB = 1TB | 108 hot-swappable 9 arrays x 12 drives | N/A |
| RAID types supported | 0, 1, 3, 5, 0+1 | 0, 1, 5 | JBOD, 0, 0+1, 1, 3, 3+0, 5, 5+0 | N/A |
| Ethernet ports | G5 2 x gigabit ports, RAID Array 2 x 10/100TX | 2 x 10/100/1000 ports | 4 x 10/100/1000 on Server, 2 x Copper 10/100 on Array. 3 x FC on Server, 6 x FC GBICs on Array | 1 port |
| CPU/s | 2 X 2.3GHz G5 (64-bit) | 1 x 2.4GHz P4 | NA | N/A |
| Memory (Standard/Maximum) | 1GB/16GB (Tested with 3GB) | 512MB / 3GB of DDR ECC | 4GB/8GB | N/A |
| NAS OS | Mac OS X Server v10.4 Tiger | GuardianOS V 3.1.079 | NA | N/A |
| Redundant Power Supply (eg dual redundant) | G5 Single, RAID Array Dual | Single | Hot swappable power supplies with separate outlets | No |
| Network Transport Protocols Supported | TCP/IP, AppleTalk | TCP/IP, UDP/IP, AppleTalk | NA | TCP |
| Network File Protocols Supported | Macintosh (AFP, AppleTalk PAP), Windows (SMB/CIFS), UNIX and Linux (NFS, LPR/LPD), Internet (FTP, WebDAV) | MS CIFS/SMB, Unix NFS v2/3, Apple AFP 2.0, Web HTTP 1.1, FTP | SNMP Protocol | HTTP |
| Network Client Types Supported | Open Directory 2 (OpenLDAP, Kerberos, SASL). Windows, Linux, Mac OS clients | Windows 95 through XP, MAC OS 8.x 9.x 10.x, Solaris 7 - 9, HP-UX 11, AIX 4.3.3, Red Hat 7.2 8.0 9.0 | Solaris, Linux, Windows, AIX & HP-UX | Web brower |
| Server Emulation | Win NT, Mac OS X, NFS, FTP | Windows NT 2000 2003, AppleShare 6.0, NFS v2/3, FTP | NA | N/A |
| External Interfaces | Xserve G5 Server - dual port FC HBA Xserve RAID Array - two 2GB FC controllers |
Ultra2 SCSI (backup interface) | Fibre Channel | SCSI |
| Bundled Management and backup software | Integrated GUI management tools - Server Admin and RAID Admin are included. Management with RAID Admin can be done remotely from Mac OS, Windows, or Linux platforms. Xserve RAID storage will integrate into exisiting server platforms and can be backed up by the environment that runs on the supported server platform | GuardianOS V 3.2, Bakbone Netvault 7.1.1, Snap EDR (Enterprise Data Replication) , Snap S2S (Server 2 Server Synchronisation), Symantec Powerquest DataKeeper (desktop data backup), Symantec PowerQuest V2i Protector Desktop Edition, Symantec PowerQuest V2i Protector Server Edition | SSCS, StorEdge Traffic Management | Web management standard |
