Re: NetAps vs EMC

[Robert Hajime Lanning <lanning@lanning.cc>]

The real difference is in support.  EMC has hot support and you REALY
pay for it.  (this is through experience with their SAN product)

NetApp for NAS works very solid.  You will hardly ever need their support.
fairly easy to setup and maintain also.

---- As written by Lois Bennett:
> 
> We have a very old filer which is tiny now.  It has been totally 
> reliable in the 2 and 1/2 years I have been here and I think it was 
> here for a year before that.
> It had a disk fail and the fail over to hot spare just worked.  I 
> have no hard numbers though.
> 
> We are in the process of replacing it because we have out grown it 
> and it is no longer supported because it is so old.  Good solid stuff 
> in my opinion.
> 
> I don't have an opinion on their support since we have never really needed it.
> 
> Lois
> 
> At 10:58 AM -0700 1/30/01, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> >Does anybody have any hard number on the reliability of NetAps vs EMC ?
> >
> >Anybody's been running NetAps filer for a long time, could you comment on
> >their reliability ?
> >
> >Anybody with a horror story ??
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >
> >Yves.
> >----
> >Yves Dorfsman                                        dorfsmay@cuug.ab.ca
> >                                          http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~dorfsmay
> 
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