[Info-vax] SBB's

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2013-01-02 19:00:
> In article <kc0p0l$tm4$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>
>> Now, as much as I low VMS, I (only) use VMS for things that VMS does well.
>> Acting as a repository for the families files (sound, music, digital
>> pictures and such) is *not* one of those, IMHO.
>
> What's wrong with storing .JPG files on a shadow set?

Nothing at all! I have a bunch of JPG's on my VMS server where
my auction site automation tools are running. These JPG's are
uploaded each evening together with the rest of the auction info.

But they are on VMS becuse my VMS *applications* needs them.
The applications are a bunch of Python scripts, by the way.

My families photos (also similar JPG's from a stricly technical
standpoint) are on our Netgear ReadyNAS boxes. Simply becuse they
are a better solution for *those* JPG's (then VMS).


>
>> I have two Netgear ReadyNAS boxes (one at home and one at the office)
>> each (currently) with 4 1TB disks in RAID config. These are used by my
>> wife and kids to "save" their files.
>
> Why are they better than a VMS solution?

Becuse of the ease with how wife and kids can connect and "use"
that box. The VMS box is better for *my* needs.

> Of course, one has to compare hardware from the same time frame.

Why?
I prefer to look at what is actualy needed now and what is
available now.