On Sun, February 1, 2009 14:24, Richard Elling 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.
The people who in fact want service contracts covering their drives will of course buy from Sun; that works well for them, and well for Sun. Win win! Thing is, the people who *don't* want service contracts covering their drives (which, in my experience, is everybody in the SATA era; it's a silly waste of money) will be pissed off, and will have to avoid buying that Sun product. This is a lose for Sun, and possibly a lose for them. Will anybody actually be forced to buy their drives from Sun? If so, is that something for Sun to be proud of? It looks to me as if this kind of policy doesn't bring business to Sun, it drives it away. At least, it doesn't bring *happy* business to Sun; it might bring people feeling coerced and looking for an excuse to escape. Google, who live and die by their data, prefer to use cheap commodity hardware. Since they're *already* set up with redundancy, they can afford a higher failure rate. This sort of thinking is true of a lot of high-end places these days, their reliability requirements are so high that one good server (or disk drive) can't possibly meet them anyway. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
