[BBLISA] Fileserver opinion

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
> Behalf Of John Orthoefer
> 
> the 1TB SATA hard drive that you get from
> NewEgg and xTB of disk storage you get from Netapp are NOT comparable.

I'll agree that "you get what you pay for."

But I'll say this:  Scrap netapp, and go with ZFS.  I did this about a year
ago, and I am SOOOO happy I did.  ZFS does everything and more than netapp.
I can run it on commodity Dell (or whatever blackbox) hardware.  I can build
a cheap "backup" server which is regularly instantly(ish) snapshotted from
the primary server, and all of it is migrated and stored offsite.

Seriously, the features and performance of ZFS over Netapp or EXT3/4 are
hands-down just plain superior and awesome.