Let's not assume that news is low priority in everyone's environment. Yes, in typical shops, News is low-priority. But let's say you're a big ISP who has a few million paying customers and one of the things they pay for is to read news. Now news becomes a bit more important. Or let's say you're a web site that provides a searchable archive for News articles. Now that data becomes business critical.

One man's junk data is another man's gold.

Just a bit of perspective.

-- Adam Fox NetApp Professional Services, NC adamfox@netapp.com

-----Original Message----- From: Mohler, Jeff [mailto:jeff.mohler@netapp.com] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 1:40 PM To: 'Brian Tao'; Martin Hannigan Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Exchange 2k

Is news so important to you that you would put it on a filer?

That's one thing I stick to JBOD... price out two terabytes of usable storage on 50GB or 72GB drives in decent enclosures over U2SCSI or FibreChannel, and compare it to an F760 with the same amount of space. If you're concerned with performance of millions of small files, switch to a different storage model... it will almost certainly be cheaper than a big Netapp. --

Or switch to a more efficient method of running news (IE: Highwind).