24 Apr
2000
24 Apr
'00
3:44 p.m.
Why should it be faster than locally attached RAID?
Netapp filers are often faster than locally attached RAID. Is it black magic? Or just good coding? Regardless, it's true. You're right that the ease of centralized storage is worth a small performance hit, but often data moved from local disk to a filer sees a performance gain.
Gigabit definitely helps, especially if you need all that bandwidth.
Bruce