2009 Xserve 3,1 I flashed it to cMP 5,1 (144), installed 2x X5675s and 8x8gb 1333 ram. I have been experimenting with a modified smbios in OpenCore. I used OC to inject my original serial number back in and to turn it back into/ identify as an Xserve. I have iCloud, etc.

2015年7月20日 · My rationale for powering ahead with the existing Xserve has been - the robustness of a 6 year old Xserve versus a new Mac Pro or Mac mini. Since the Xserve has redundant power supplies and redundant internal drives, it would always be a better bet than a consumer level machine. If it dies, we'd replace it with another Mac.

2018年8月30日 · so i have my 2 m4000 and the two raid card in the sc846 chassis and planing to put a x540t2 network card in the last free slot. in the xserve i have the expender host card and the anfeltec 4ssd raid0 aray. the ssd raid array is backuped on a raid 5 array of 15000rpm sas drive in the original xserve caddy.

2011年2月1日 · Update on Xserve Processor Upgrades Thank you to everyone who added their thoughts and advice. Realizing that the Westmere line uses the same socket I have determined to try my hand at those. Better yet, I will be attempting, to the best of my knowledge, the first 12 core Xserve. I will be going as big as I can get with a pair of six-core X5690.

2008年10月5日 · Xserve in my mind is more for web server farms and/or large/medium company servers. Mac Pro is more used more by people in the photography, film industry doing heavy rendering and in small business as a server.

2022年11月6日 · In the 2000s, Apple sold the Xserve, a rack-mounted server system. In 2011, it was discontinued and replaced with server versions of the Mac mini and Mac Pro. Over a decade after the Xserve was discontinued, Apple is about to transition the Mac Pro to Apple silicon, with M2 Ultra or M2 Extreme chips.

2005年8月24日 · If ethernet really is that important, just install a PCI-X 1-gigabit Broadcom card -- which is all Apple did on the XServe. The XServe's real talent comes from the Server tuned OS and the applications that run it -- especially since Apple has imposed increasingly resrictive concurrent user limits on the base OS since 10.0.0 arrived.

2020年4月18日 · Hey there folks. Just wanted to post about my success with upgrading the GPU in my Xserve 2,1(2008). Just picked up the machine for $80 with all three drive carriers being the SAS raid ones and the integrated raid controller. Has the two 3.0GHz 4 core xeons for 8 cores. even has 26GB of ddr2 FB...

2014年3月19日 · I mean, even with the same clock speed, shouldn't the Xserve be slower. Because, how should you save electricity, when you use the same CPU-chip? As a 'desktop', the only notable features of an XServe, versus a g5 tower, as the hot-swap drive bays, the larger RAM capacity, the rather common dual-Gigabit ethernet, and a proper serial port.

2018年8月30日 · I think you should probably start by replacing microcodes for cpu support like it was firstly made with mac pro 4.1, then adding nvme like it was made with mac pro 5.1 prior bootrom 140 was out. Then we preserve our xserve identification gaining 12 core config with nvme boot without cross-flashing tower-based cibling firmware. Just an idea though.