[geeks] picked up a mint condition Netapp F330 for $10

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Oct 6 23:02:35 CDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 07:28:37PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> I picked up a mint condition Netapp F330 for $10.
> It has 100BaseT enet and what looks like 3 SCSI controllers.
> Is it worth bothering with for use with up to 5 systems?  Or is the P90
> inside just too darn slow?  

We had primary storage for an entire ISP on one of these in '98.  You have
nothing to worry about.  The OS it runs (OnTap) is highly stripped down and
optimized to do nothing but fileserving.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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