[Gllug] Hitachi SMS-100

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On 26 Mar 2010, Rich Walker spake thusly:

> On 2010-03-26 08:17, N. Pauli wrote:
>> The thing is, we had a technical / sales fellow over from RM who sell
>> regular SAN solutions and this Hitachi SMS-100 which seemed to me
>> totally right-sized and appropriate for us. But he summarily
>> dismissed the SMS-100 [at £8K] as too slow to be a file server and
>> talked a full SAN at double the price and requiring £1350 p.a. of
>> support fees.
>
> Wouldn't "Guy from RM dismisses it" translate as "Must-Buy" in everyone
> else's world?

I'd say so. I'm astonished that the education system still uses them. I
mean, they were awful when I was at school, what, twenty years ago: if
they're still there after twenty years, I suspect they think they have a
sinecure.
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