From: Rob Groome <groome@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: NAS: EMC vs NetApp
   Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:26:47 -0700

Rob


Dylan Penhale wrote:

[posted to rush.general]

Thanks Greg

We did look into Sledgehammer but where put off by the lack of support over here in Australia, same goes for Bluearc as well. In fact BA did offer to ship a second head unit to Australia but I then preferred it if we bought the second head unit ourselves.

NetApp have a good support infrastructure here in Australia so that made a big difference to our final decision.

I think the order has gone in now, we are going for the new(ish) FAS3050 gateway (active/active heads). Looking forward to chucking the test at it ;)

Dylan

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:23 am, Greg Ercolano wrote:

[posted to rush.general]

Greg Ercolano wrote:

Dylan Penhale wrote:

Hi guys

We looking for post production houses that use EMC NAS based
storage systems, for both 3D and 2D as we are interested to hear
how they match up against Netapp NAS systems. We realise that
EMC has a strong foot hold in SAN markets, but we like the NAS
simplicity and rem aware of GFS based technologys (such as
Netapp purchase of Spinniker) that will enable NAS systems to
inherit many SAN type capabilities.

Could anyone suggest any post houses that use EMC?

   I know a few folks in town testing out EMC's Sledgehammer..

	OK, I was wrong, the eval I was thinking of was a
	MAX-T product (MAX-T.COM) called "Sledgehammer".

	The company /doing the eval/ had "EMC" in its name,
	so that crossed my wires.

	So I have no input to offer about EMC's NAS product (EMC.COM).

	I can tell you that the folks eval'ing the MAX-T/Sledgehammer
	product did the 'dd' test I normally recommend, ie:

		dd if=/dev/null of=/path/to/server/foo-`hostname`.jnk

	and I'm told it actually tested well.
	I didn't oversee the test myself, but there's some second hand
info.

I believe EMC's product is Linux based,

	Strike that -- I have no idea of what EMC's core technology
involves.