On February 1, 2009 12:24:08 PM -0800 Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote > John-Paul Drawneek wrote: >> the J series is far to new to be hitting ebay yet. >> >> Any alot of people will not be buying the J series for obvious reasons >> > > The obvious reason is that Sun cannot service random disk > drives you buy from Fry's (or elsewhere). People who value data > tend to value service contracts for disk drives.
i don't agree. disk drives, well non-Sun branded ones, are cheap enough to just keep on hand. even for my home systems, i always buy an extra hard drive of the same size/type the system came with. i expect drives to fail, and hence i used SVM or now for the past few years, zfs, for availability. that covers a failure "immediately" until such time, usu. 1 day max, that the physical drive can be swapped. a service contract for a hard drive seems a complete waste of dollars, esp. when you consider the 5x markup on the drive. once i've swapped in my cold spare, if i can't wait for a warranty replacement i simply buy another drive. for parts that might be hard to get, or very expensive, a service contract makes great sense. but for hard drives? -frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
