Who the fuck builds these things?

[serinde]

Now the OTHER file server, the one that does everything that is not mail, has fallen and will not get up. I, of course, am on first pager. BECAUSE I KNOW A GODDAM THING ABOUT NETAPPS.

Comments

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the contract is a large part of the point if this sort of hardware. Without it you might as well just buy a Thumper.

(Which is not a particularly bad route and something we've been agitating for ever since they were first released. 24TB raw for AU$50k, yes please!)

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, the role in question has been filled by a NetApp since before ZFS was conceived; the hardware might have been a bit more pointful then.