Frank Cusack wrote: > > It is ashame (for the consumer) that it's not available without drives. > Sun has always had an obscene markup on drives. > > -frank
To me, hard drives today are as much a commodity item as network cable, GBICs, NICs, DVD drives, etc. Sun should not be marking them up at the rate that they do. I would be happy to buy a Thumper at whatever engineering cost they have calculated in for the system without the drives. For sun to charge 4-8 times street price for hard drives that they order just the same as I do from the same manufacturers that I order from is infuriating. It doesn't make that much difference on a two drive x2100, but when you are talking about 48 drives in a thumper, it makes paying that markup just insane. I still buy my x2100s without drives because of the same reason though. My local Sun service guy out here hears this from me all the time, and it is probably the only complaint I really have about Sun. I pay ~$1k/TB right now for my ZFS JBOD storage. It is mostly just bulk storage (user home directories & the like) and does not require huge bandwidth. So, when Jonathan Schwartz decides to sell them without drives, maybe I'll buy a few just to have a nicely engineered system instead of my cabling mess currently in the racks. -Shannon _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
