On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
|If you monitor this mailing list you will get the impression that the |NetApp products have nothing but problems. That's because people |without problems don't need to post. It's sort of like going to an AA |meeting and complaining, "Gosh, you're all alcoholics! Doesn't anyone |here NOT have a drinking problem?"
I agree with this as well. We have run into many bugs with our netapps, but never have had an outage longer than 5minutes, and NEVER have lost any data. That IMO is a strong statement for network attached storage.
We also are running NetApp Release 4.3.5D2 and refuse to upgrade. "If it aint broke, don't break it"
|I used to be a big Auspex fan. Now I'm a big NetApp fan. (actually, I'm |a fan of big NetApps :-) ). The CIFS/NFS integration is so tight its a |thing of beauty. The RAID, wafl, and other features make it difficult |to even evaluate any other box. Now re-evaluating BudTool on the other |hand...
Mmmm....if only a native legato client :-)
Jonah
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