Re: NetAps vs EMC

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck@snew.com>]

Have a friend dealing with both - he and I love the
NetApps, but his throughput from a Symmetrix box was
shockingly poor (compared to a PC running local IDE even).

The major differences are function.  Netapps do NFS really,
really well.  EMC's, as I understand, are intended to
provide local appearing disk.  The EMC/NFS thing I saw
used SCO as the front end/controller.  I've done the SCO
ride and it firmed by belief in BSD.  (not that I have
strong opinions about that :)

NetApp upness - my co uses it for windows as well and have
had them brought down for minor OS updates - usually for
under 5 minutes.

Quoting Yves Dorfsman (dorfsmay@cuug.ab.ca):
> 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 ??