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From mds@gbnet.net Fri Mar 20 22:02:23 1998

Return-Path: mds@gbnet.net Delivered-To: mds@gbnet.net Received: (qmail 7924 invoked by uid 130); 20 Mar 1998 22:02:23 -0000 Date: 20 Mar 1998 22:02:23 -0000 Message-ID: 19980320220223.7922.qmail@ns.gbnet.net From: "Mark D Simmons" mds@gbnet.net X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: tonylai tonylai@ms7.mitac.com.tw Subject: Re: Disk drives prices Cc: mds@gbnet.net

Because the NetApp complexity and cost is actually superior to all the vendors I mention as my fall-back choices.

For many specific tasks, including other file and database servers, we do in fact use Sun and SGI. NetApp boxes provide vast, easily managed pools of disk that I rarely need to intervene with to keep running so their cost- effectiveness wrt my time is very high. Ditto the availability of the data we keep on them.

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