On March 27, 2007 1:43:01 PM +0800 Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As promised. I got my 6140 SATA delivered yesterday and I hooked it up to a T2000 on S10u3. The T2000 saw the disks straight away and is "working" for the last 1 hour. I'll be running some benchmarks on it. I'll probably have a week with it until our vendor comes around and steals it from me.
That's great! Now I have the option of spending just 2x as much as I would spend on another vendor instead of 4-5x as much. Sun just put the 6140 head unit in the startup essentials program, I wish they would put the expansion shelf in there also! I'm not being facetious about giving the 6140 hard consideration if it can be done for 2x the cost of some other solution. I just had a fan fail on an x4100m2. First of all, what a reliable box. There are 2 rows of fans so if one row dies the other one is still working, thus no hotspots. Then, each fan module has a little LED on it that stays lit to indicate it has failed. It was easy for the Sun guy to just open the access door and swap the new fan in, while the system was running. Plug connectors also -- no wires. THAT is a quality product and worth the premium. (But even so, the x4100m2 is well priced given the specs.) I don't have any real experience with Sun arrays, but I have had lots of poor experience with other vendors' arrays (no big names). I see a definite trend towards more reliability (or at least, servicability) in Sun's hardware in general; from the way Sun is pushing it, I'd think the 6140 must be part of that trend. Sorry to ramble. Might I suggest sticking a 'zpool scrub' or 2 in there? I've found that to be a good way to shake out problems. -frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
