For the most reliable filer, find an old F330 with DOT 4.3. These suckers never die. The only feature added to DOT lately are bugs that need to be fixed in the next release. I am very cautious about upgrading the software. It takes more than someone on the phone telling me that "you better do it". I research the release myself and sometimes decide that this is not worth my while.
-gdg
"Shaun T. Erickson" wrote:
Mitch Wright wrote:
... bug fixes (well, ones that effect me) are "features" worth the downtime. That's not to mention that the downtime to upgrade a filer is often as little as doing a reboot.
Upgrades to fix bugs usually happen after my filer crashes and causes downtime and (sometimes) data loss for my users. That's hardly a "feature".
I've got a filer that has never had an OS upgrade and has been in service for about 3 years now.
You must be blessed. I'm on my third filer and it's the first one I've had that actually went as long as *3* months before it had a problem (a crash that requires - guess what? - and upgrade to fix).
-ste