What Network Appliance products where available back in 1994?

What Network Appliance products where available back in 1994?

I mentioned the Gear6 solid state storage device and somebody said
they were using comparable equipment back in 1994, an unspecified
model of "Network Appliance", by which I take it they mean the
products made by NetApp.

I suspect they are way off base, and the net Network Appliance back in
1994 consisted of a number of hard drives with some ram for a cache.
I'll guess the Network Appliance back then had 3 gigs or less of ram,
and that the 1994 model Network Appliance was at least a hundred
times slower than an Gear6, but that is all just guesses.

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:33:00 -0000, "Sue Baskerville ( SuezanneC
Baskerville )" wrote:

What Network Appliance products where available back in 1994?

I mentioned the Gear6 solid state storage device and somebody said
they were using comparable equipment back in 1994, an unspecified
model of "Network Appliance", by which I take it they mean the
products made by NetApp.

I suspect they are way off base, and the net Network Appliance back in
1994 consisted of a number of hard drives with some ram for a cache.
I'll guess the Network Appliance back then had 3 gigs or less of ram,
and that the 1994 model Network Appliance was at least a hundred
times slower than an Gear6, but that is all just guesses.

I don;t know when the NetCache debuted but that may be to what they
are referring.
It was also called DNFS; distributed nfs.

I know of several shops that used it and liked it. But time plods
ever on and there were not very many advances in it's performance,
though it was an incredible gain at the time.

~F

Sue Baskerville ( SuezanneC Baskerville ) proclaimed:

What Network Appliance products where available back in 1994?

The Toaster, aka FAServer 400 was around in mid 93-94ish, some of the
folks at the old Bellcore mentioned them rather favorably to us.

I mentioned the Gear6 solid state storage device and somebody said
they were using comparable equipment back in 1994, an unspecified
model of "Network Appliance", by which I take it they mean the
products made by NetApp.

I suspect they are way off base, and the net Network Appliance back in
1994 consisted of a number of hard drives with some ram for a cache.
I'll guess the Network Appliance back then had 3 gigs or less of ram,
and that the 1994 model Network Appliance was at least a hundred
times slower than an Gear6, but that is all just guesses.