Okay, so the F700 series has been announced. I am, however, left with many questions:
1. Are these models Alpha based? Pentium? Other? What are the relative speeds, so I can compared to the previous models? The F760 appears to be about 50% faster than the F630, but I'm sure that's spread out over several components, not solely due to the CPU.
2. When can we expect even preliminary SPEC SFS numbers?
3. When can we expect Netbench numbers? One would guess they would be in the range of 30MB/second.
4. What is the maximum network connectivity? The spec sheet mentions 8 PCI slots, but I don't know if that includes those for tape and/or FC-AL.
Bruce
+--- In a previous state of mind, sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote: | | 1. Are these models Alpha based? Pentium? Other? What are
Yes. Alpha.
| the relative speeds, so I can compared to the previous | models? The F760 appears to be about 50% faster than the | F630, but I'm sure that's spread out over several components, | not solely due to the CPU.
I think the 760 is a 600Mhz alpha. The 740 is what most closely resembles the f630 of today (including memory limitations).
| 4. What is the maximum network connectivity? The spec sheet | mentions 8 PCI slots, but I don't know if that includes | those for tape and/or FC-AL.
fcal is built in, as is 10/100 ethernet, dual power supplies, cable-less motherboard. I don't know if the nvram is still a card or not (rather, I cannot remember). I think the 760 had 4 64bit pci slots, so you would be limited to 4 gigabit NIC's.
http://www.netapp.com/products/level3/f700series_techspecs.html
Has all the data.
These boxes look sweet. And pricing is quite nice. I just ordered a 740 with 3 fcal shelves and 16 9gb drives. I cannot wait for it to show up.
Alexei
I would be more comfortable see the SPEC published :-) i.e in http://www.specbench.org/ Wonder how long we have to wait!
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From: Alexei Rodriguez alexei@cancerman.cimedia.com Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:41:33 -0400 Subject: Re: New F700 Series To: toasters@mathworks.com
+--- In a previous state of mind, sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote: | | 1. Are these models Alpha based? Pentium? Other? What are
Yes. Alpha.
| the relative speeds, so I can compared to the previous | models? The F760 appears to be about 50% faster than the | F630, but I'm sure that's spread out over several components, | not solely due to the CPU.
I think the 760 is a 600Mhz alpha. The 740 is what most closely resembles the f630 of today (including memory limitations).
| 4. What is the maximum network connectivity? The spec sheet | mentions 8 PCI slots, but I don't know if that includes | those for tape and/or FC-AL.
fcal is built in, as is 10/100 ethernet, dual power supplies, cable-less motherboard. I don't know if the nvram is still a card or not (rather, I cannot remember). I think the 760 had 4 64bit pci slots, so you would be limited to 4 gigabit NIC's.
http://www.netapp.com/products/level3/f700series_techspecs.html
Has all the data.
These boxes look sweet. And pricing is quite nice. I just ordered a 740 with 3 fcal shelves and 16 9gb drives. I cannot wait for it to show up.
Alexei
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---philip thomas
I would be more comfortable see the SPEC published :-) i.e in http://www.specbench.org/ Wonder how long we have to wait!
The numbers for the F760 and F740 were approved last week and were supposed to be on http://www.spec.org/ (aka http://www.specbench.org/) yesterday, but the person responsible for making that happen was out with a knee injury. I'm told they should be live in the next day or so, but until then, you can find them at http://www.netapp.com/. The F720 results should be available in a couple of weeks or so.
-- Karl Swartz - Technical Marketing Engineer / NetApp SPEC representative Network Appliance Work: kls@netapp.com http://www.netapp.com/ Home: kls@chicago.com http://www.chicago.com/~kls/
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Okay, so the F700 series has been announced. I am, however, left with many questions:
Heck, I just want to know if the power switch has been moved to the back of the unit, or otherwise shielded from accidental bumping. From the photo, it looks like the LCD display and the floppy slot are the only two notable features on the front panel. Nice case too. :)
Yeah ..the switch is now at the back with the power supply.
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Brian Tao wrote:
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Okay, so the F700 series has been announced. I am, however, left with many questions:
Heck, I just want to know if the power switch has been moved tothe back of the unit, or otherwise shielded from accidental bumping.
From the photo, it looks like the LCD display and the floppy slot are
the only two notable features on the front panel. Nice case too. :)
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
Heck, I just want to know if the power switch has been moved tothe back of the unit, or otherwise shielded from accidental bumping.
From the photo, it looks like the LCD display and the floppy slot are
the only two notable features on the front panel. Nice case too. :)>
From a lowly sales type --- the answer is ---- YES! YES! YES! HALLELUJA,
YES!! AND EVEN A BIG LCD!!!! (You know us sales guys like watching lights flash and numbers display, and now we can watch it much easier...,)
From now on I have been considering leading my sales presentation off
something like...,
"Mr/Mrs Customer; LOOK at the SIZE of our LCD NOW!! AIN'T IT COOL!!! And what a nice "cool" fealing the sky blue bezel gives you.., and oh what's this!?..., HEY, LOOK HERE! the power button is in the BACK NOW!, MAN-O-MAN!! Whats that you ask?? Yea yea yea, its faster, even simpler and more reliable than before..., but your missing it - LOOK AT THE DAG-GONE LCD.., hey do you think Mr. Dave Hitz can engineer that LCD so we can watch some DVD movies on this???"
So what do ya think??? ;-)
I'm setting up a filer that will hold our undergrad's stuff, and wondering if there's anyone else out there who's thought about a snapshot schedule for that environment. I'm pretty sure we should take more snapshots and retain them for less time than the default, but if anyone has specific numbers that's worked well in a short term programming-assignment-driven environment...
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:59:24PM -0700, Jim Davis wrote:
I'm setting up a filer that will hold our undergrad's stuff, and wondering if there's anyone else out there who's thought about a snapshot schedule for that environment. I'm pretty sure we should take more snapshots and retain them for less time than the default, but if anyone has specific numbers that's worked well in a short term programming-assignment-driven environment...
We're in the ISP world and use a schedule of:
0 3 10@4,8,12,16,20
which works out just fine and dandy for us.
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on / 19364440 12255232 7109208 63% / /.snapshot 2640604 1905720 734884 72% /.snapshot
Hopefully that helps you some.
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