On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Mike Horwath wrote:
I will be discussing these aspects with them, and testing it out myself.
The price per GB is looking oh so much better than the NetApp.
I think they cut their pricing quite significantly in the NS2000. Ideologically I'd probably rather buy directly attached storage than what appears to be a bunch of hardware patches. Initially their architecture had even more components. They decided to consolidate more and more in the new hardware revs, but the NAC is already consolidated. Judging by the architecture, I think that NACs are cheaper to produce than Auspex and better thought out. I think the difference in pricing is because Auspex is trying to recapture some market which is divided by far more companies than a reader of this alone would be led to believe.
Tom