and here is a web page that talks about their offering

http://www.dell.com/products/powervault/pv7X0N/index.htm

Dawn

-----Original Message----- From: Dawn Hamel [mailto:dahame@wnt.sas.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:04 AM To: 'Matt Harrington'; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: cheaper alternatives to NetApp?

Try looking into the Dell Solution. I have a F720 in house from Dell that has their 18G drives attached. If you are looking for a cheaper solution ... an F720 with Dell drives might be the way to go.

Contact your local Dell Representative

Dawn (just giving possible alternatives)

-----Original Message----- From: Matt Harrington [mailto:matteo@dnai.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 6:56 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: cheaper alternatives to NetApp?

I'm in the market for something very similar to a F720 but with cheaper 18GB drive prices. I know of competitive products from Nitech and Procomm but as far as I can tell nothing but the NetApp will let me add 1 or 2 drives to the RAID set at a time. I assume this is because the NetApps use RAID 4.

Does anyone know of a NAS product which will allow me to add a drive at a time without having to reformat the entire RAIDset?

matt

-- matt@ucsd.EDU