NetApp

Oct 5, 2009

This seems like the 'best' place to post this, since I doubt the Dedicated Server or VPS section is rife with SAN buyers, and the Managed are probably not really savvy on the technical side, so..

For those of you with experience with NetApp, I have two serious questions.

For some of you, the valid question is #1: Why do YOU buy NetApp, as opposed to other vendors (EMC, Sun, HP, etc) or home-grown (DAS units, lesser-known vendors, SuperMicro boxes and some software glue)?

For the other half, the valid question is #2: Why do you NO LONGER buy (or never have bought) NetApp, and who/what have you switched to and why not NetApp (anymore)?

I'd prefer the two sides not argue in the thread. I'm just looking for you to answer whichever of the above questions fits you and that's it. Let's not have a troll thread.

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NetApp Devices?

Mar 10, 2008

Out of curiosity more than anything, what's up with NetApp devices? It seems to me that, for the cost of a Network Appliance system, I could build something that was an order of magnitude cheaper, and worked at least as well.

For instance, I'm looking at a 4TB NetApp for $113K. The cost of 4TB of disks (146GB SCSI at 15K RPM) from a 'normal' sources comes to around $7,000, so I'd budget $10K or so for a halfway-decent fileserver.

Why is the NetApp an order of magnitude more? I just wonder exactly how it's different, and who values those differences so much? (And apologies if I come across as critical of the NetApp: I'm curious, not critical.)

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