Your Q. >>>>> So what can W2k3 do that an F720 cannot? <<<<<

Run appliacations and crash spectacually is what that is good at. It can also store data... Ok we admit that !

My Q. >>>>> So what can an F720 do that an W2K3 cannot? <<<<<

Serve data, and serve data well. It is an appliance, designed for that purpose. ONTAP even offloads other functions such as Virus Scanning etc... So that the Appliance can get on and do its job well.

So, I guess W2K3 can do most things, fairly OK but not as well as an appliance specialising in those tasks.

Your Comment >>>>> And no I don't like Windows 2003 storage stuff :( But it does all fit in an eighth of the rack space, and 6 disk drives. <<<<<

Trade up to a FAS270(c)up to 4Tb in one 3u shelf, with all the filer intelligence and not a START button in sight :o)

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Sphar, Mike Sent: 26 August 2005 16:05 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: So long and thanks for all the bytes

My guess would be "Get approved by penny-pinching management".

I know I've had many times where I've had to fight for keeping/upgrading a netapp over objections such as "Well, I could just buy a bunch of cheap disks and a server at Fry's to do the same thing!"

Things like those stupid SNAP Servers don't help either. We had to move a bunch of stuff to one of those a while back over my objections. Fast forward a couple months and the SNAP Server loses a disk, which somehow causes it to actually crash and corrupt most of the data (which wasn't all being backed up yet because we were still fighting with a weird permission problem trying to get NFS backups to work.) Bear in mind the ancient F230 that we moved data *from* has never experienced any data loss like that, and is in fact still running.

Now when people talk about putting something on the SNAP server I just say "Yeah, good luck with that" and I keep putting my stuff on my good friend Mr F940.

-- Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Mohler Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:29 AM To: Simon Waters; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: So long and thanks for all the bytes

So what can W2k3 do that an F720 cannot?

On 8/26/05 4:20 AM, "Simon Waters" simonw@zynet.net wrote:

Thanks for the help over the years.

Expect rather tired F720 with lots of 18 and 36 Gb to appear on Ebay

shortly

;)

And no I don't like Windows 2003 storage stuff :( But it does all fit

in an

eighth of the rack space, and 6 disk drives.

Simon

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