[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:12:30PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Everyone I know who's run a current-model netapp says you absolutely
> must get the yearly service contract because they do break regularly.
> It's just that you don't usually lose service when they break because
> they've bgot enough redundancy that the replacement parts usually arrive
> before you have to shut them down completely.

My experiences with their older Pentium-based stuff (F220, F33) have
been wonderful - we had an "extra" F220 @ Texas.Net for about two
weeks, and decided to see just how much punishment it would take.  We
couldnt break it!  We even took it, completely SWAPPED HEAD UNITS with
another 220 (basically put one unit's drive shelves on another) and it
worked fine (since all the config info, OS, etc, are on the drives, 
and not internal to the head unit).  

"Lets take out one drive."  <yank>

"whoo, still running"

"lets take out another drive."  <yank>

"whoo, still running"

"lets cut the power" <click>

<reboot>

"whee, still working"

etc.  

> The ex-Sun people I know wouldn't buy Sun's solution and would have
> preferred a netapp if they could have afforded it....

I've heard good things about the latest-revision T3 stuff, but I 
think its still basically a fancy 220R with some StorEdge shelves,
running Solaris...

bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX