On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Chris Caputo wrote:
|>I'm interested to hear what others think the shortcomings of the current |>crop of NetApps are. From my experience: | |My biggest beef is that the upgradability of these things is low. It |seems that when you buy a unit you are buying a capacity and improvements |in disk technology don't raise it. For example, our unit uses 4 gig |drives. Its max capacity is 14 4 gig drives. We'd love to put 9 or 18 |gig drives in it, but the software doesn't support it. I realize 9 or 18 |gig drives would raise rebuild time, but that risk should be up to us.
Amen to that.
A paste from a sysconfig -r on an F630
1: SEAGATE ST15150W 9107 Size=3.9GB (8388315 blocks)
The ST15150W is an *OLD* drive that Seagate doesn't even list as a current product.....
Some newer drives please? 18gig drives please? It *can't* be that hard to allow 18gig drives...if it is your programmers didn't do their job correctly.
|I also consider the high price per meg to be a shortcoming and because of |it we are researching and developing alternatives.
Just negotiate hard with Netapp. I still feel screwed everytime I want an upgrade from netapp. The above drive model is $355 through disribution...netapp quoted me $1700/drive.
Their NVRAM pricing is LUDICRIOUS considering its 3rd party NVRAM bought from Dallas semiconductor. Ditto for DRAM.
Netapp:
Make your money on your wonderful software, and stop trying to price gouge your customers on *off the shelf* items like Seagate Hard DRives, Samsung DRAM, and Dallas Semiconductor NVRAM.
We really aren't that stupid I promise.
Jonah
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