Probably due to the lack of port multiplier support. Or perhaps they
run software for monitoring that only
works on Linux.
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On Sep 2, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Trevor Pretty <trevor_pre...@eagle.co.nz>
wrote:
Overall, the product is what it is. There is nothing wrong with it
in the
right situation although they have trimmed some corners that I
wouldn't
have trimmed in their place. However, comparing it to a NetAPP or
an EMC
is to grossly misrepresent the market.
I don't think that is what they where doing. I think they where
trying to point out they had $X budget and wanted to buy YPB of
storage and building their own was cheaper than buying it. No
surprise there! However they don't show their R&D costs. I'm sure
the designers don't work for nothing, although to their credit they
do share the H/W design and have made is open source. They also
mention www.protocase.com will make them for you so if you want to
build your own then you have no R&D costs.
I would love to know why they did not use ZFS.
This is the equivalent of seeing
how many USB drives you can plug in as a storage solution. I've
seen this
done.
Julian
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