Apple Australia SE told us... (Score 2, Interesting)

During the conference held couple weeks back at Melbourne Uni, the guy from Apple Australia explained to us as to why Swinburne TAFE decided to use the XRAIDS. As it's the only one that supports IDE (He went on to say that the whole reason why RAID is there for is to reduce the costs, yet others use the more expensive SCSI drives) it was the cheapest way to transfer the data from Parkes to Hawthorn. They basically get a van, pack the HDs onto it once the data is collected, and drive back to Melbourne, which is still cheaper and faster then transferring all the data through existing network channels. The ultmiate connectionless network =)