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Interesting. How much did you buy your ANS for?

My ANS 500 cost me a "summer of work" (actually, I was paid, and they threw the server in as part of the contract, since it was of no use to anyone else).

My ANS 700 was bought as a set of two, one with a blown logic board and one that was stripped, so I combined the two and scrapped the bad one. I think I paid $100 in 2004?, but we went and picked it up (which with these units is no mean feat).

The ANSes are wonderful machines whose quirks are more endearing than annoying. Their biggest drawback is their (by modern standards) weak CPU; otherwise, they have great I/O, even for their age.

ClassicHasClass wrote: What did you use for file serving services? Was it the Mylex RAID card?

It wasn't my shop I was just an operator but as I remember we bought a larger system and they gave us the AWS in the package. I'm also pretty sure it had two raid cards with four drives on each card. We had millions of dollars of gear floating around in those days and support contracts used to cost a whole lot of money, you didn't really buy the software on these high end systems, you paid for them to keep it going.

It used to be hard to get one server to speak to a number of different workstations and other servers simultaneously and the AWS did this really well especially if you had a bunch of macs.

Wait, AWS or ANS? The ANS is not part of the Workgroup Server line.

On my ANS, I used uShare until it drove me crazy, and then migrated to Samba.