On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Tim wrote: > I don't think anyone is asking Sun to service disks that aren't > theirs, but to claim that's a reason for not selling drive trays is > crap. You already claimed in the other thread that Sun has > contracts for custom disks so they don't have to worry about short > stroking/right-sizing so it should be pretty frigging obvious to > support if the disks in the JBOD are Sun or "some random crap > purchased from fry's".
I agree that this is cause for concern. For example in the past six months Sun has silently dropped almost all of its "desktop" product line. This includes the Sun Ultra-40 that I bought at great expense. There is no indication that there will be any remaining products in the desktop line and maybe there will be no Sun desktop offering at all once the remaining low-end system is discontinued. Quite a pity since Sun "desktops" were top quality and price competitive for the features offered. Today I ordered the drive extension bay to support four more drives in this system simply because I don't trust that Sun will provide adequate support for the product it sold to me. So I purchased expansion hardware that I might not even use out of pure unadulterated fear. I have seen how quickly Sun's support for discontinued products vaporizes. I can not afford $6K for the six additional drives at the moment so I can only hope that Sun (or some other vendor) will still be willing to sell SAS drives with appropriate brackets to fit in this system when I am ready to buy them. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
