My guess would be "Get approved by penny-pinching management".
I know I've had many times where I've had to fight for keeping/upgrading
a netapp over objections such as "Well, I could just buy a bunch of
cheap disks and a server at Fry's to do the same thing!"
Things like those stupid SNAP Servers don't help either. We had to move
a bunch of stuff to one of those a while back over my objections. Fast
forward a couple months and the SNAP Server loses a disk, which somehow
causes it to actually crash and corrupt most of the data (which wasn't
all being backed up yet because we were still fighting with a weird
permission problem trying to get NFS backups to work.) Bear in mind the
ancient F230 that we moved data *from* has never experienced any data
loss like that, and is in fact still running.
Now when people talk about putting something on the SNAP server I just
say "Yeah, good luck with that" and I keep putting my stuff on my good
friend Mr F940.
--
Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator
SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]
On Behalf Of Jeff Mohler
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:29 AM
To: Simon Waters; toasters(a)mathworks.com
Subject: Re: So long and thanks for all the bytes
So what can W2k3 do that an F720 cannot?
On 8/26/05 4:20 AM, "Simon Waters" <simonw(a)zynet.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the help over the years.
>
> Expect rather tired F720 with lots of 18 and 36 Gb to appear on Ebay
shortly
> ;)
>
> And no I don't like Windows 2003 storage stuff :( But it does all fit
in an
> eighth of the rack space, and 6 disk drives.
>
> Simon
>
>