On 08/29/99 18:48:09 you wrote:
Greetings.
I waded through the "toaster" archives hoping to get a list of vendors which sell parts for EOL'ed toasters but had no such luck.
Specifically, I have an F210 which has 64Mb RAM and one shelf full of 4Gb hard disks. I'd like to upgrade it to the lastest OS release and get some more disk on it. Upgrading will require an additional 64Mb of RAM and for storage I either have to find a storage shelf and some more 4Gb disks, or replace the 4Gb disks I have with 9Gb drives. Since rack space is at a premium, I'd just as soon move to 9Gb disks but cost and availability are likely to be the deciding factors in the end.
Well, I don't have any help to offer on finding old parts, but there may be reasons why you should upgrade to a newer filer anyway.
Was the F210 ever approved to support 9GB drives? (Or for that matter, 128MB memory?) I don't recall. (Is there a maximum disk space limit on the F210?) You should also consider the load on your filer; if doubling the space will support more clients then the low-end F210 may not be able to handle it.
Another thing to keep in mind is in order to move to the larger drives you will have to do something like a backup/restore.
Bruce
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Was the F210 ever approved to support 9GB drives? (Or for that matter, 128MB memory?) I don't recall.
Yes and yes.
(Is there a maximum disk space limit on the F210?)
Well, "in its day" you could supposedly have a single storage shelf of 9Gb drives (or two storage shelves of 4Gb drives). Never did understand why you could have two shelves of 4Gb drives, but only one if you used 9Gb drives, but I digress...
You should also consider the load on your filer; if doubling the space will support more clients then the low-end F210 may not be able to handle it.
We purchased an F740 which more than meets our ongoing needs, but the F210 can easily handle the load of the additional storage capacity we need. It would be alot cheaper to toss a couple 20Gb drives onto a unix box and get the capacity, but the nac offers alot of other features as everyone here knows. Not to mention, we have it already and just need to add some disk. The extra memory is so I can get to the current release of the OS for the sake of consistency (and qtrees) more than anything.
Another thing to keep in mind is in order to move to the larger drives you will have to do something like a backup/restore.
That is why I want to do this soon. The functions currently on that F210 are transitioning to our new F740. When complete, the F210 will be out of the loop as far as production. I'd like to get the OS and capacity upgraded and put it back in a different role.
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