Open-E DSS v6 and the competition

[SimonD]

Dear SimonD, really thank you for your very kind post and your interesting blog.

What I would like to say is that for DSS Lite version, it can be expanded even to an Unlimited storage size version with support.

And what we believe in is that no one having 18TB or more of data and do not think of having a support for all this amount of data(unless if it's not an important data), that’s why we give our customers the support starting from the 4TB plane.

Al,

Please don't get me wrong, I really am impressed with DSS and I think it's a great product but I believe you would get a greater take up of the Lite (and therefore Full) version if more people used it, what could be limiting that is the 2tb restriction.

Whilst I don't have 18tb of data I do have about 14tb of disk capacity from 3 different NAS devices at home excluding the the MicroServer (which is my home lab shared storage platform) is capable of using more than 2tb of disk space (my 3 additional NAS devices are 2 Iomega IX4-200D's and a Buffalo TeraStation Pro II all with more than 70% utilisation).

As far as backup of my data is concerned the cost of backing up even 5tb of data at the moment is huge and thats why I replicate the data between my various NAS devices and that's my backup strategy (and so far it's worked for the last 3 years).

I will be doing more with DSS though, more testing for NFS Failover in the next couple of weeks.

[Mi-M]

...really great research/test and work done from your side. Appreciate your time being spent on that huge process. From my perspective it's always nice to hear positive information regarding the product we support but also your suggestions are very helpful for future improvement tasks and processes.

I hope to hear from you in near future next summary this time regarding NFS Failover...


Well done !