[rescue] Netapp

[Eli Bottrell]

You may want to check out raidzone.com, they make some cheaper ide based NAS
boxes. They use one controller per drive, so performance shouldn't be all that
bad.

 - Eli

Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Dowdy [mailto:dowdy at cs.colorado.edu]
> >
> > > I user/hobbyist license would be ideal- whether it's worth
> > it or not for
> > > NetApp is perhaps debatable. I doubt that there are that
> > many surplused
> > > boxes out there that they would care. Would be nice, though.
> >
> > I seriously doubt NetApp would have *any* interest in this.
> > They've been
> > *MIGHTY* good to us as a edu/research institute, but i doubt the suits
> > would see any benefit in a hobbyist deal.
>
> Too bad...  these are nice hobbyist boxes.
>
> > > are a little picky about which drives you put in-
> > Barracudas have always
> > > been OK. The NetApp software checks the SCSI ID string of
> > the drive, and
> > > will complain if it's "not approved".
> >
> > Not only the vendor ID, but the FIRMWARE level as well!  We've binary
> > hacked the on-disk system code to get it to accept some of our
> > "non-approved" disks in the past.  However, we couldn't hack
> > the floppy
> > utilities, since they're in some compressed format we couldn't easily
> > manipulate.  The supported disk list is a very small subset
> > of reality.
> > (iirc, some fujis, seagates, and an IBM or two, totallying perhaps
> > 20 individual drive types and f/w combos).  NetApp would like to make
> > some $$$ on selling you the drives in the SBB's (Storageworks Building
> > Blocks -- aka canisters)
>
> I can't really see why...  They have got to make a killing on those "head
> units".  Educational pricing was way out of the league that we could afford
> here, even for a relatively tiny netapp.  We're going with throwing cheap
> RAID arrays into some of our servers, just because we can get so much more
> storage for the price.  The functionality is nice, but just a bit overpriced
> at the moment.
>         Greg
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