On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 08:36, Rainer Duffner wrote: > NetApp is really the high-end of storage, but also from a price-viewpoint. > But if you have enough customers and/or pretty strict SLAs, there's > hardly a choice, unless you want to gamble ;-)
> The clustering-software is very expensive - and you've got to buy a 2nd > NetApp, too. ;-) I'll chime in a say that I have had great success setting up Qmail/Vpopmail/etc that stores on an nfs mount from a two machine mirror using drbd/heartbeat to provide mirroring and failover. http://www.drbd.org/ Using commodity hardware, it really does save you a lot of money over the Netapps with clustering and I wouldn't even consider it a gamble...just based on my experiences. Jay
