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Anyone using Onstor Bobcat series appliance for NAS?
Any feedback on this product? We are considering using them along with
NexSan storage arrays to build NAS. Looks to be a cheaper alternative to NetApp nearline products. Anyone using them in production? TIA -G |
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Anyone using Onstor Bobcat series appliance for NAS?
Sto Rage© wrote:
Any feedback on this product? We are considering using them along with NexSan storage arrays to build NAS. Looks to be a cheaper alternative to NetApp nearline products. Anyone using them in production? We brought in a couple for evaluation and although we didn't purchase them, I really did like the products and the company is great to deal with. The primary reason we didn't purchase them was due to the 8k blocksize that was hard-coded into the Bobcats. We were looking to migrate from a Windows-based file cluster with 4K blocksizes and our average file size happened to be 11K, meaning a large jump in required storage for the same amount of data. ONstor was going to change that but I haven't heard if they ever did. Overall, the Bobcats performed very well for us and I suspect that one of these years we'll look at them again. Comparing themn to a NetApp nearline isn't exactly fair though - the Bobcats don't have any disk associated with them so a more fair comparison might be a replacement for a Windows cluster. .../Ed |
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