David Gerard wrote: > 2009/8/4 William Allen Simpson <[email protected]>: >> If you have to buy now, and are unlikely to upgrade for years, the current >> gold plated performance version is Sun ZFS over NetApp filers. > > Rilly? I thought they were comparable in performance but Sun was way > cheaper (hence the patent kerfuffle). > No idea myself. I'm just passing along comments verbatim. I'm pretty sure "gold plated" means expensive. And I'm pretty sure NetApp wouldn't stay in business long for "comparable" performance. So, a whole bunch of somebodies out there think that NetApp performance exceeds others. YMMV.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the team needs to decide whether the 2 server, shared, pushme-pullyou variant, without Fiber Channel (or iSCSI or whatever), would perform well enough to meet current needs. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
