Xserve Fibre Channel card now has 4Gb

Sorry about the original headline, folks: editing error on my part. Apple quietly added two more high-speed Fibre Channel cards to the product lineup last week: dual and quad-port 4Gb cards are now orderable from the Apple Store with ship dates 7-10 days out (dual-channel card) or 4-6 weeks out (quad-channel card). These cards are PCI Express and compatible only with the Mac Pro or the Intel-based XServe.

For those feeling the need for speed, keep in mind that the XServe RAID still tops out with the built-in dual 2Gb FC ports. To get the benefit of the 4Gb channels on the new cards, you'd have to connect to a 4Gb fiber switch with aggregated bandwidth from several RAIDs (typical of an Xsan deployment).

[via Macenterprise/alienRAID]