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.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 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 -- Julian King Computer Officer, University of Cambridge, Unix Support _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss --
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