When you can get a basic 1TB drive for $100 at your favorite vendor it is a hard sell that data center quality costs at least 10x that. But you definitely get what you pay for.
OTOH, I do believe you can put together a creditable alternative from parts and open source if you pay attention. Once you've done that you'll appreciate what you get from a NetApp, EMC, HP, or whatever storage vendor you choose, in terms of manageability and support, not to mention scale and performance. On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:48 AM, John Orthoefer wrote: > I just have to put in my 2 bits on this. > > There is a LOT of engineering that EMC and Netapp does. I've had to fight > this battle before, the 1TB SATA hard drive that you get from NewEgg and xTB > of disk storage you get from Netapp are NOT comparable. There is a ton > functionality that you get out of a Netapp that doesn't exist in a raw drive, > or even with the drive plugged into a linux box running EXT3. > > The Netapp is designed to serve data, it's kernel is tailored to get blocks > of data off the disk and push it to the wire. It runs a custom filesystem, > which is where a lot of their technology is. You're never going to get the > performance out of Linux box doing the same job unless you put at least a > significant fraction of the man-hours that Netapp has put into their product > in to it (and at most places People Time is expensive.) > > Now if you have a Linux NFS/Server you are happy with, that is great. But > if you want a box you can drop in a datacenter, spend a few hours setting up, > and know that you can fill the wires with data, you need to spend the money > on a Netapp. > > Yes I guess I have drank the NetApp Koolade but I've seen way too many places > trying to make some Linux/Windows Solution work, when what they want is a > NetApp. > > johno > > > On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Grant Young wrote: > >> >> >> Everybody likes to rag on EMC and other storage vendors for charging so much >> per terabyte but they engineer the headaches out of the storage. >> > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
