We host the majority of our NFS environment from two XRAID devices, mounted on a pair of Sun 280Rs running Solaris 8. Overall, I've been very impressed by the XRAIDs. They're solidly constructed, the management interface is wonderful, and the removable components are all easy to access. We connect the XRAIDs directly to the Suns, via Apple's dual port PCI FC cards. This isn't explicitly supported, your milage may vary. I have no idea how the XRAIDs balance load between the two interface cards, if they do at all. I love the blue LED "throughput-o-meter" on the front. > > Does anybody how many servers can you connect to an Xserve RAID without > > losing too much performance? Sorry for not really answering the question. Just an opinion on the hardware, really. -Chris Dwan CCGB, University of Minnesota