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Leopard Reference Library: Storage
Apple storage devices include disk drives and Xserve RAID. Mac OS X manages storage devices using a stack of drivers, each of which supports some aspect of the communication between computer and device. Developers can use the BSD interface and the I/O Kit (Apple's object-oriented driver development framework) to access storage devices and their media at different layers of the stack. Administrators can use Xsan to aggregate networks of storage devices into 64-bit cluster file systems.
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Multipathing with FibreChannel on Mac OS X (HTML)
TN2173: An explanation on how FibreChannel multipathing works on Mac OS X and how to design storage hardware to take advantage of it
 Technical Notes 2007-03-23
SMARTQuery (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstration of how to access and use S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring functionality
 Sample Code 2007-05-30
Xserve G5 PCI Hardware RAID Card (PDF)
Explains how to install the card in an Xserve G5 and how to set up a RAID volume.
 Guides 2005-01-03
Xserve G5 Using the Hardware RAID PCI Card (PDF)
Explains how to use the software provided with the Hardware RAID PCI Card to configure and manage RAID operations.
 Guides 2005-01-03
Xserve RAID Using RAID Admin 1.2 and Disk Utility (PDF)
Explains how to use RAID Admin, Fibre Channel Utility, and Disk Utility to configure and monitor Xserve RAID systems.
 Guides 2008-06-09