We currently have a Netapp F820 that we cannot add any more drives to and a
Netapp in our remote office. Management is sold on the snapshop and
replication features that the Netapp has to offer. So they agreed to upgrade
the F820 to the 940 which will allow me to have 12TB of space instead of
3TB. Actually I was pushing for the Nearstore R150 from Netapp but had to
settle for an upgrade. I haven't checked into the bladestore it seems
everyone is  pleased with the Netapp.

-----Original Message-----
From: jjkdec [mailto:jjkdec AT comcast DOT net]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 9:18 PM
To: David Turner
Subject: Re: RE: [Veritas-bu] Using cheap ATA disk for virtual tape


Why did you choose the Netapp and not the bladestore?



----- Original Message -----
From: David Turner <Dturner AT manh DOT com>
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:09 am
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Using cheap ATA disk for virtual tape

> I just got management to sign off on a Netapp 940 for the same 
reason,
> justifying the cost by showing how Backup to disk will reduce the 
> number of
> tapes I have to purchase. I plan to dump my incremental to disk 
> and later on
> adding some of my Full backups. Hopefully I will only use my L180 
Tape
> library for Duplicates only...any thoughts or suggestions are 
welcome.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William H Blandy [william_h_blandy AT fanniemae DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 7:43 AM
> To: 'Huslage Aaron S - CNF'; 'David Ashamalla'; 'jjkdec';
> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Using cheap ATA disk for virtual tape
> 
> 
> We are using about 40TB of Hitachi FC disk.  We do about 250TB of
> backups a week, we need the speed that FC and the faster disks 
> give us.
> 
> Bill Blandy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Huslage,
> Aaron S - CNF
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:52 PM
> To: 'David Ashamalla'; 'jjkdec'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Using cheap ATA disk for virtual tape
> 
> 
> I'm also working on a similar project. We do about 8 TB a week of
> backups, so we're looking at getting a 24TB NearStore R150 from 
NetApp
> or an EMC cx600 w/ATA drives. 
> 
> Any thoughts on either of these boxes? Any alternatives I should be
> looking at?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Ashamalla [davida AT telephia DOT com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:08 AM
> To: 'jjkdec'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Using cheap ATA disk for virtual tape
> 
> We are using an Arena Indy 2600, which gives 1.6TB for about $12k. 
> Whilethe box has been very reliable, I could not get the 
> monitoring ethernet
> port to work, and would not buy another one.  I am looking at a 
Nexsan
> box, which costs 
> about the same, and seems to solve my problems.
> 
> We are using this for most of our incremental backups, and some of 
our
> weekly fulls (where monthlies go offsite).
> 
> D
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jjkdec [jjkdec AT comcast DOT net]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 9:05 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Using cheap ATA disk for virtual tape
> 
> 
> I am looking at using cheaper ATA disk drives for a staging area 
> for 
> my backups.  I am at a point were I need to by more tape drives or 
> implement a disk storage unit.  The systems that I have been 
> looking 
> at are STK bladestore and Quantum DX30.  My company has a few 
> remote 
> sites for which the backup performance would increase if it were 
> to go 
> to disk first instead of tape.  I would appreciate any discussion 
> concerning using ATA disk drives.
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
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