Re: MetaStor Network Attached opinions?

[Darrell Fuhriman <darrell@grumblesmurf.net>]

paul.joslin@weirdness.com (Paul R. Joslin) writes:

> the amount of cache they support.  You hear claims of 1 TB or 500
> GB, then look at the fine print and see that the box maxes out at
> 256 MB of cache.  If cache is tight, you have to look at spindles

The only filers netapp makes that will support > 500GB (without
clustering) are the 740 and 760, which take 512M and 1Gb read
cache respectively.  They both take 32M write cache (nvram).

> back up a 500 GB lump of data.  NetApp recommends NFS mounting it
> and doing it over the net.  That works, if you have a backup

But, they do support ndmp, if your backup software does.  (Which
legato still doesn't, *grumble*)

> problems with Auspex and the newer HP & Sun have been

Auspex is history unless they start dropping their prices *a
lot*.  A netapp'll outperform 'em and cost a fraction the price.

Darrell