vkeven is not considering how simple it is with Open-E vs the other free or OS's that are out there. I am running several DSS products in our company and the simplicity and ease of use is good for our operation and we had a power hit last month and lost a system but move the RAID controller and the USB module was toasted as well but when support told us to use the Demo USB trial version we were up and running in now time.
So if was to use these free versions that VKeven is talking about I would more work to do and let's not forget that there support is NOT FREE - in fact it is more expensive the DSS itself and what VKeven is not telling you all is that if you use the replication support this an annual charge ever year making it more $$$ and with Open-E support is free.
Also there are issues with the other free products that are out there and we all know it and I think your issues with AFP are singled out. I know there are many software packages out there that have soooo many issues even the expensive ones and I think if you want to pay for $20K for a LeftHand product then go ahead. In this economy the DSS is a great product and sounds like VKeven should go this way as I have seen his other posts comparing Open-E to other very expensive product. This is surely a compliment to Open-E. VKeven I don’t think your statement is far when you say Open-E does not care as we have had an issue in the past where they created an update to fix our NFS issue. You must have had something that was very rare or can’t be done and now you are broadcasting it to make them look bad, I have seen other postings that you did similar statements but what gets me is that you are working with a NFR are you not a user or did you ever pay for DSS? Sounds like you did not.
webguyz, we are looking at the DSS V6 now for a new datacenter next month and simulated a failed test and was able to use another flash stick to revive our data in just one reboot from having to create another DSS V6 flash usb stick - very cool and we would not even think of using a windows product.
So you are ok with the DSS product and your data is safe, just use a good raid controller - i like the areca 1680's.
VKeven - I had asked in last response what is the ticket number that you sent to support so we can post the results here. Also we can do the 16TB replication and engineers are targeting this to be in the September release with DSS V6 and management wanted this feature in this version not in the DSS V5 version because they wanted the SCST ready for DSS V6.
Again give me the ticket # so we can investigate where you stated Open-E did not care!
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