Report: Sun Open Storage

[Jim Tarvid]

Carsten - still cursing slightly about Sun's choice of non-enterprise.
Having thrown a number of DeathStars in the trash, I can empathize.

Mark Schouten wrote:
> First of all, !apple-- :)

It's worse than that. It's SMB/CIFS. How dare we suffer such heresy as
Samba.
> Second, please do not compare end-user hardware with enterprise grade
> storage solutions. You need about two extra zeros at the end of the
> price to come near it.

The two extra zeros are not in the budget. Nor is the salary for the
enterprise grade administrator. But the energy savings will pay for a decent
"end of capitalism as we know it Christmas Party".

Jim

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Carsten Aulbert <
carsten.aulbert at aei.mpg.de> wrote:

> Mark Schouten wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 07:32:15AM -0500, Jim Tarvid wrote:
> >> For the file serving needs of the vast majority of small networks, how
> can
> >> one justify more than an Apple Time Capsule?
> >
> > First of all, !apple-- :)
> >
> > Second, please do not compare end-user hardware with enterprise grade
> > storage solutions. You need about two extra zeros at the end of the
> > price to come near it.
>
> SCNR: Hmmm, does this imply that the only difference is the price?
>
> *going back into hiding again*
>
> Carsten - still cursing slightly about Sun's choice of non-enterprise
> hard drives for the x4500...
>
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