"jss" == Jeffrey Skelton jss@NET2PHONE.COM writes:
jss> they lost data with Netapps. Why? Because they could not take a jss> backup with their enterprise backup software and then they jss> suffered a multiple disk failure from a set of disks with problem jss> firmware.
*shrug* Not using anything spiffy here (yet); regular old dump to either a direct attach or over the network. Then again, we don't have umpteen GB of disk either.
jss> But, I have seen some of the recent messages on performance and jss> throughput. How would you rate the Netapps for performance for jss> things like home directory storage?
Pretty well, for me. ~800 clients on a F630 and it hardly breaks a sweat. I find I need more disk space than ops. Our toaster(s) in Build and Test, however, need a truckload of ops (we had the 740 hit ~8100 ops/sec the other day) and not much disk.
jss> - the clustering did not work. Paid for cluster and the failover jss> did not work as advertised.
Heh. I think this is Nathan's cue.
K.