To NetApp - Make these things cheaper so we can buy more. Their really good, but a dollar a meg is too high when the non-raid market is at $0.1 per meg. Also, make it so those extra PCI slots can be used for more SCSI cards, even on the low end machines.
Although marketing certainly has input, the space restrictions also come from engineering droids. During normal operation the smaller machines could certainly handle more disk, but the time required for something like RAID reconstruction could get dangerously long.
It's actually a bit funny, because there have been times when marketing has pushed on engineering to allow larger capacities, but engineers have pushed back because they wanted to tune RAID reconstruction more before allowing letting capacity grow. (I think paranoia is a good thing in an engineer.)
I don't mean to imply that there's no marketing input to the capacities of the different systems, but that's certainly not the whole story!
When you can't do things like this it really makes the company seem like it is driven by marketing droids obsessed only with competing with Auspex.
Hey! It's not just our marketing guys who are obsessed. :-)
Seriously though, I've worked hard to avoid an obsession with Auspex at NetApp, because I don't believe it's healthy. We compete much more often with Sun than with Auspex, since Sun has a much broader product line and a much, much larger market share. I think it would be bad for our customers if Ausepx were our primary focus.
On the other hand, I don't mind being obsessed with competition in general, because I think that's what makes products improve.
Dave "Paranoid and Obsessed" Hitz