Comment by geerlingguy

Apple used to even sell Xserve RAID and SAN software specifically to cater to the higher end users who needed fast networked storage (research, broadcast, media).

They kinda hit a standstill on the networking side as they moved to the trash can Mac, and I think that had killed momentum towards any high speed IO besides the Thunderbolt ports moving forward.

I was hopeful they'd keep the Mac Pro going into the M-series era but after one version... it's gone.