Shannon Roddy wrote:
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.
Are you sure they're really the same drives? Mechanically, they
probably are, but last I knew (I don't work in the Storage part of Sun,
so I have no particular knowledge about current practices), Sun and
other systems vendors (I know both Apple and DEC did) had custom
firmware in the drives they resell. One reason for this is that the
systems vendors qualified the drives with a particular firmware load,
and did not buy just the latest firmware that the drive manufacturer
wanted to ship, for quality-control reasons. At least some of the time,
there were custom functionality changes as well.
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--Ed
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