From what I heard from NetApp sales and managers for the past few months, it seems the new NearStore product line will be a cost-effective, low-performance, large capacity filer designated for near-line storage.

However, I just downloaded the newest Quoter from the NOW site. The new Quoter indicated that an R100-12TB preconfigured is priced for nearly USD$330,000(Wow!!!). Is this an error of the new Quoter? Or, NetApp executives really think they can use this AMAZING price to compete with other nearline storage devices?

*Sigh*

Regards, -- Allen TK. Chang Project Manager allen_chang@syscape.com.tw Syscape Technology