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Steven Archer
Network Systems Administrator
Department of Information Technology
Douglas County Government
Phone: 303-660-7499
E-Mail: sarcher(a)douglas.co.us
>>> David Carmean <dlc(a)halibut.com> 05/22/01 03:15PM >>>
Well, your choice of username/email address and anonymity certainly
make /me/ take you more seriously than if I knew who you were, your
history, and your relationship with all three companies.
( Yes, I work for Netapp, but I'm just a sysadmin for the engineering
labs and not a heavy direct user. Standard disclaimers of unofficial
opinions apply, as implied by using my personal email address. )
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:01:36PM -0000, Dilbert Dickweed wrote:
> Obviously nobody here has really touched one from the statements made. I
> have and have done direct compare between IP4700 (EMC) and 840 as well as
> the BlueArc box and it is very refreshing.
> It is true that some of the feature set is not there yet but they do have
> NDMP and unlike Netcrap, back-ups online don't crash the server.
> I have done my own IOmeter tests with various settings using some FreeBSD
> clients and this thing blows away 840 and IP4700. IP4700 is a joke anyway.
> Those who are in doubt (as I was) need to check these guys out because they
> are really onto something huge here. We are talking about eliminating the
> bottlenecks that exist in ALL server architecture today and reaching the
> next level of speed. I am not talking out-my-ass here...check 'em out! See
> for yourslef and don't listen to the dinks from Netcrap or Evil Machine
> Corporation EMC!
> If you do manage to get a beta unit as some have, make sure you get the
> failover cluster because this works much better than anything I have seen
> yet....
>
> Wish they had snapshot though...