[rescue] The aesthetics of rescue

[Skeezics Boondoggle]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:46:44 -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:01:46PM -0700, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:
> 
> > in two days, the 900-series netapps should be officially announced
> > (although i've already seen plenty of leaks elsewhere, i suppose i'm a
> > tad squeamish about nda's and all that), and if you liked that shiny
> > F630 bezel, you won't be disappointed!  the new ones look to be very,
> > very cool, and positively wicked fast...
> 
> What makes it faster?  Are they using something faster than FastE yet?

in addition to 10- and 100-mbit ethernet, filers have been supporting fddi
(until it was dropped, recently), atm and gigabit ethernet for some time.

bummed as i was when the 800-series came out and they abandoned the alpha
for the intel cpus again, i guess you can't blame them given that hpaq
stuck a fork in it... porting to yet another cpu arch would have been
expensive, and since filers were originally built around the x86 it made 
sense that they'd go back.

so the 900-series machines will have more/better/faster everything - cpus,
memory, nvram, pci bandwidth - as you'd expect in a new product
introduction. :-)  damn nda's... it should all be out there tomorrow.  
most notable, i think, is that the sustained write speed is pretty
phenomenal.  i'm hoping they'll get some spec results posted soon.  no
early leaks on spec.org yet.  dang.