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I've heard numerous nightmare stories about organizations losing TeraBytes of data when their EMC CLARiiON went tango-uniform on them, but I've not heard any similar horror stories about NetApp storage arrays. I'm sure it's happened, but I just haven't heard about it.

Can someone out there who is using NetApp for their primary storage, and who has had a nightmare data-loss scenario, please post their story?

Got this from a colleague - -

I've seen a few EMC Clariion boxes completely melt (only the older ones,
but we didn't lose any data. I've only seen a few issues with NetApp,
but the issues were traced back to the device being setup incorrectly by
the tech when rolled out of the box. I haven't seen one melt/blow
up/self destruct yet

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I've heard numerous nightmare stories about organizations losing
TeraBytes of data when their EMC CLARiiON went tango-uniform on them,
but I've not heard any similar horror stories about NetApp storage
arrays. I'm sure it's happened, but I just haven't heard about it.

Can someone out there who is using NetApp for their primary storage, and
who has had a nightmare data-loss scenario, please post their story?

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Nothing in this world is perfect. But NetApps are very good NAS/SAN units. I've used them for many years and have had very few issues. Have run large enterprises on them. They are pricey, but you get what you pay for.

FWIW, I have worked with all the big names such as HDS, IBM, EMC, Clarion, Storageworks to name a few. Netapps should give you no worries.