20 Apr
2001
20 Apr
'01
12:27 a.m.
Ah, good. That's what I assumed since a RAID 0 solution didn't seem to make sense for what the F85 was designed for and, of course, I was far too lazy to look it up myself.
You know, of all the things in that original email that were "subjective", stuff about expandability and the quality of support, etc. I could accept a salesperson being shifty about claims in those areas. Our support is better than theirs, we're faster, more reliable, yadda yadda yadda.
But to make such a blatantly false claim about something that is a demonstrable fact. Like I said before, that would tick me off more than anything else, and I likely wouldn't deal with that company afterwards. At the very least, I would insist on a new sales rep.
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Mike Sphar - Sr Systems Administrator - Engineering Support Services -
Remedy Corporation
BOFH, GWP, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE, BFD
-----Original Message-----
From: Mohler, Jeff [mailto:jeff.mohler@netapp.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 4:15 PM
To: 'Mike Sphar'; 'Barry Lustig'; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: How would you respond to this
Finally, does the F85 really use RAID 0? If so, it's true that it's not as
failure proof, but then if the model was designed for RAID 0, then it's
simply not targeted at the same market as a redundant RAID unit. If
capacity and performance are far more important to you then redundancy, then
RAID 0 is the way to go. (Though as I said, I'd be surprised if it really
was RAID 0. If it's not, then a blatant lie like that would immediately
turn me off to any vendor.)
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Since nobody else has responded..I'll step in.
The F85 enjoys the FULL and complete feature set of WAFL and its engineering
around RAID4 to do its work quickly, quietly, and with outstanding
performance compared to any other filesystem or features the competition can
throw at us.