Auspex wants to change all that with the NS3000, which has been expanded to work on NFS, CIFS, HTTP and Linux environments. SPECsfs was developed by an industry team of developers who wanted a better means of measuring Unix NFS server performance. Mark Zimmer, of the Mineral Management Service for the U.S. Department of the Interior in New Orleans, favors Auspex' offering. We have close to 12 terabytes of storage online and are going to purchase another 1 terabyte next month. The performance is compatible with what we see from Network Appliance and EMC boxes.
Performance is very important in looking at seismic data.
Because most clients are pulling in 200G-byte files, you need a server that can deliver that data very quickly to multiple clients. The NS3000 is available as a single node with an upper range of 6 terabytes in May. Pricing is not available.