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warezdog · 01-27-2007, 08:30 AM

Since I have no experience with them besides this one you're probably right. I have the 4.0 full, the sys is like 30MB, most people said it was only an upgrade but its too big to be just that.

So since I know nothing and he was going to mail me links to get the two versions I couldn't find elsewhere I didn't question or ask!

My main goal was to get it to play with AD so 4.0 was the solution, or so I thought.
The adaptec guy on the phone said it would only play with NT4 domains and would never be active directory compatible and could only go to 3.4.807.

Honestly I never tried the 4.0, this snap server is for work, stock with raid 5 it has 80GB and change. sbbI moved it to the art departments building and let the Macs have at it, maybe I'll try 4.0 later today and see what happens.

All and all these aint so bad for storage, this ones beginning to grow on me and I have two buffalo terastations and a Hammer zsan (NEVER BUY A HAMMER!) and to be honest the snap responds quicker in every aspect. There are some command line utils the Hammer has and you cant locally mount volumes on it but had I been there before the Hammer was purchased I wouldn't have bought it, its been nothing but problems, latent network response, crappy I/O performance all around and its less than 90 days. I'm pretty sure its a lemon so I' m trying to get a new one.

Also if anyone has a link here in the forums for a complete hard drive swap and how big I can go please do post! My thought was to take out all the drives and ghost each one and put them back in the same place, now I bet my problem will be the BIOS wont see squat over 80 giggers.

I can't beat up adaptec too much cause others are worse about license/hardware and if hardware transfers the software does not, those that come to mind as near Nazi like tactics are, and these are soley my opinion from personal experience

Cisco IOS and BGP if you are not first owner or buying from someone with a transferable license you can't legally upgrade, BS!

Network Appliance NetApp 7xx 8x filers Want to buy a used F760 with 2TB of stoarge off ebay for couple hundred bucks? Hmmm no Data On Tap installed, guess what? You'll have to have it NetApp certified and THEN buy the license/s which will cost you a couple thousand AFTER the 500-600 recertification charge TOTAL BS

Nortel pretty much same as Cisco, if you don't ammend that part of the contract to state that if the hardware transfers ownership the software doesn't you're SCREWED legally that is.

AT home I'm running net app FC9 shelves with 7 36 or 72 gb 10K 8m fibre channel drives. two shelves 36 gb in hardware raid 5 with HOT spare yields about 450GB of FAST space.

If I run all 5 shelves I can yield about 3TB but that costs about 4 bucks per day for the electric company so I only turn it on when I want to archive the 450GB.

Its nice knowing that the 450GB would have to have 3 drives fail at the same time.
And I've seen the sata stuff, let me tell you about MTBF, SCSI and Fiber channel will ALWAYS have at least 1,000,000 hours average MTBF so thats older than any of us will live, sata or ide can't even come close. and oh ya I paid $15 each delivered for my 72GB, so I bought 45 of em! The raid card is an ICP (euro adaptec but much more friendly!) that has 256MB ram and cost me 125 off ebay.

Sorry to blab and I'm way off post, too much espresso I guess! Oh ya don't forget to post that link 4 me!

tx peeps!

01-27-2007, 08:30 AM	#21
warezdog Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: florida Posts: 8	Re: Snap 4000 Upgrade from 2.3.417 to 3.4.807 Since I have no experience with them besides this one you're probably right. I have the 4.0 full, the sys is like 30MB, most people said it was only an upgrade but its too big to be just that. So since I know nothing and he was going to mail me links to get the two versions I couldn't find elsewhere I didn't question or ask! My main goal was to get it to play with AD so 4.0 was the solution, or so I thought. The adaptec guy on the phone said it would only play with NT4 domains and would never be active directory compatible and could only go to 3.4.807. Honestly I never tried the 4.0, this snap server is for work, stock with raid 5 it has 80GB and change. sbbI moved it to the art departments building and let the Macs have at it, maybe I'll try 4.0 later today and see what happens. All and all these aint so bad for storage, this ones beginning to grow on me and I have two buffalo terastations and a Hammer zsan (NEVER BUY A HAMMER!) and to be honest the snap responds quicker in every aspect. There are some command line utils the Hammer has and you cant locally mount volumes on it but had I been there before the Hammer was purchased I wouldn't have bought it, its been nothing but problems, latent network response, crappy I/O performance all around and its less than 90 days. I'm pretty sure its a lemon so I' m trying to get a new one. Also if anyone has a link here in the forums for a complete hard drive swap and how big I can go please do post! My thought was to take out all the drives and ghost each one and put them back in the same place, now I bet my problem will be the BIOS wont see squat over 80 giggers. I can't beat up adaptec too much cause others are worse about license/hardware and if hardware transfers the software does not, those that come to mind as near Nazi like tactics are, and these are soley my opinion from personal experience Cisco IOS and BGP if you are not first owner or buying from someone with a transferable license you can't legally upgrade, BS! Network Appliance NetApp 7xx 8x filers Want to buy a used F760 with 2TB of stoarge off ebay for couple hundred bucks? Hmmm no Data On Tap installed, guess what? You'll have to have it NetApp certified and THEN buy the license/s which will cost you a couple thousand AFTER the 500-600 recertification charge TOTAL BS Nortel pretty much same as Cisco, if you don't ammend that part of the contract to state that if the hardware transfers ownership the software doesn't you're SCREWED legally that is. AT home I'm running net app FC9 shelves with 7 36 or 72 gb 10K 8m fibre channel drives. two shelves 36 gb in hardware raid 5 with HOT spare yields about 450GB of FAST space. If I run all 5 shelves I can yield about 3TB but that costs about 4 bucks per day for the electric company so I only turn it on when I want to archive the 450GB. Its nice knowing that the 450GB would have to have 3 drives fail at the same time. And I've seen the sata stuff, let me tell you about MTBF, SCSI and Fiber channel will ALWAYS have at least 1,000,000 hours average MTBF so thats older than any of us will live, sata or ide can't even come close. and oh ya I paid $15 each delivered for my 72GB, so I bought 45 of em! The raid card is an ICP (euro adaptec but much more friendly!) that has 256MB ram and cost me 125 off ebay. Sorry to blab and I'm way off post, too much espresso I guess! Oh ya don't forget to post that link 4 me! tx peeps!