Brad Knowles wrote: > > For one thing, although NetApp is generally very expensive, they have > been rock-solid production-grade storage systems for many, many years. > They just run, and run, and run. They don't break. And they take > massive amounts of abuse. > > > counterpoint:
perhaps 'used to be' would be more appropriate. We've had issues with them breaking semi-catastrophically recently. We do have 4 hour response, but that doesn't make a difference when it breaks on a Friday night and they don't have the part and can't get it until Monday morning at the earliest because parts depots are closed. (Yes, even in NYC). No data loss, but major inconvenience and occassionally extremely severe performance problems due to bugs that can't be fixed for many months. And we aren't even doing anything fancy, just serving NFS off of filers for home directories. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
