On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Alexei Rodriguez wrote:
I understand the benefits. I just don't care for having 5 4GB slices which you have to manage (ala auspex).
Ick... I'm thinking more along the lines of just two or three sets on an F630, each of which could span a few disk shelves. It certainly would be a nice option for those who could benefit from it.
Not having experience either of these in the 2+ years I have used NetApps, I have lost that fear. Perhaps it is naive.
No double-drive failures here yet, but I've had the NVRAM board die in one unit. Luckily it was during our in-house burn-in tests, so no production data was lost. Gave the floppy drive and the "wack" command a good workout though. ;-)
(knock on wood) my outages have been quite limited. And they usually last no more than 10 minutes (usually due to silly mistakes).
The worst we've had was a power supply failure on a shelf. Luckily it was only on the news spool, and no data was actually lost. Replacing the module only took a few minutes and the Netapp came right back up afterwards.