http://www.thebiggertruth.com/2009/07/if-microsoft-made-toasters-this-is-funny-stuff/ Welcome to the bigger truth! I'll try to add some context around "how" or "why" things might mean more than meets the eye. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:42:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.thebiggertruth.com/2009/07/if-microsoft-made-toasters-this-is-funny-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-345 Terp55 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:36:29 +0000 http://www.thebiggertruth.com/2009/07/if-microsoft-made-toasters-this-is-funny-stuff/#comment-345 Yes NetApps does make a toaster. And... It is not 5 9s- it is not enterprise- you will have to buy (2)/(4) and Metro Cluster them It has outrageous license fees- License for every slice you want to toast It does not scale- TB drives limit spindle counts-now you will need (4)/(8) if you want (2) slices It requires way too much Tribal knowledge- the answers you get from them always involve a "well, or "so" or "but"- The slide bar for the "how well done do you want your toast" requires an SE to operate because it depends, well, so, and but. If you only want one slice they will ship you 4, because it wasn't sized right, and doesn't quite toast that way,,well's, so's and but's.... Yes NetApps does make a toaster. And…
It is not 5 9s- it is not enterprise- you will have to buy (2)/(4) and Metro Cluster them
It has outrageous license fees- License for every slice you want to toast
It does not scale- TB drives limit spindle counts-now you will need (4)/(8) if you want (2) slices
It requires way too much Tribal knowledge- the answers you get from them always involve a “well, or “so” or “but”- The slide bar for the “how well done do you want your toast” requires an SE to operate because it depends, well, so, and but.
If you only want one slice they will ship you 4, because it wasn’t sized right, and doesn’t quite toast that way,,well’s, so’s and but’s….

]]> http://www.thebiggertruth.com/2009/07/if-microsoft-made-toasters-this-is-funny-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Alex McDonald Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:21:00 +0000 http://www.thebiggertruth.com/2009/07/if-microsoft-made-toasters-this-is-funny-stuff/#comment-344 If NetApp made toasters, you'd get the perfect WAFL. Picture proof that we really do make toasters... <a href="http://www.ntapgeek.com/2008/11/official-netapp-toaster.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ntapgeek.com/2008/11/official-netapp-toaster.html</a> If NetApp made toasters, you’d get the perfect WAFL.
Picture proof that we really do make toasters…
http://www.ntapgeek.com/2008/11/official-netapp-toaster.html

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