On Dec 10, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> LOL! Cisco. If I told you that that particular device used to be called >> Linksys, would it change your opinion of the device? I've got a Linksys >> ADSL gateway that I'm quite sure couldn't keep up with the Dell. In fact, >> I used to have that *exact* Linksys device and it died within 18 months and >> it's performance sucked! >> > > > Yes I know it is LinkSys - we used them at my old job and yeah we had one > die but the price was worth it. I am mainly concerned with the speed of > the thing and managability. My current job is a lot less sensitive to > outages than my last one, as well. Outage is one thing, but having the disk volumes disappear mid-transaction can be detrimental to a file system's health. -Ross