---} Yes, you can get a Sun and throw 20G worth of disks for about the same price ---} (or less) but you do not get the same performance, administration or ---} reliability.
I do agree on two points above: 'administration' and 'reliability'. Upgrading the OS takes only a few minutes and so far the F200 has had 100% uptime. However, on the third issue 'performance', I'm experiencing slower (almost 50%) read performance from my F220 than from a Sun Sparc20 NFS server. This issue has been looked at by NetApp's and so far no solution or reason to this anomaly.
I have had very good response from NetApps support in the past and have faith that they will resolve this problem.
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