Active Storage XRAID Available

When former Apple employees decide to further develop an idea or a concept one can expect great results. Driven by Alex Grossman, who leaded the creation and development of the Xserve RAID at Apple, the new company, Active Storage, intends to provide 'the evolution of storage for Apple users': XRAID.

Yes, the Active Storage XRAID shares some similarities with the discontinued Apple Xserve RAID, but it bring some impressive specifications which will please most Pro users. It provides up to 16 TB of storage in a 3U rack space, with a native Mac OS X management suite featuring Bonjour discovery, a Cocoa-developed monitoring application, a Cocoa admin application, a Dashboard Widget, and an iPhone management applications.
What can you do with such system? You can get 1570 MB/s on standard direct-attached server benchmarks, when associated in Xsan 2 installation, Active Storage claims that one single XRAID can deliver up to 4 streams of 8-bit 1080p uncompressed video!!!
Retail prices ranges from 10,999 USD for a 6 TB SATA II configuration to 14,999 USD for the 16 TB unit, while an expansion unit of 16 TB will be available for 12,999 USD. For sure, Pro Mac users who were looking for high performance and large storage system will have a new opportunity, and might even replace their old Xserve RAID by the Active Storage XRAID.