On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Richard Elling wrote:
> The drives that Sun sells will come with the correct bracket. > Ergo, there is no reason to sell the bracket as a separate > item unless the customer wishes to place non-Sun disks in > them. That represents a service liability for Sun, so they are > not inclined to do so. It is really basic business. > -- richard This thread has been running for a little too long, considering the issues are pretty simple. Sun sells a JBOD storage product, along with disks and accessories. The disks they provide are mounted in the correct carriers for the array. The pricing of the disks and accessories are part of the price calculation for the entire system - you could provide the array empty, with a full set of empty carriers but the price will go up. No brand name storage vendor supports or encourages installation of third party disks. It's not the way the business works. If the customer wants the reassurance, quality, (etc, etc) associated with buying brand name storage, they purchase the disks from the same vendor. If price is more critical than these factors, there's a wide range of "white box" solutions on the market. Try approaching IBM, HP, EMC, HDS, NetApp or similar and ask to buy an empty JBOD and spare trays - it's not happening. Yes, this is unfortunate for those who would like to purchase a Sun JBOD for home or for a microbusiness. However, these users are probably aware that if they want to buy their own spindles and run an unsupported configuration, their local metal shop will be happy to bang out some frames. Not to mention the fact that one could always run up a set of sleds in the shed without too much strife - in fact, in the past when "spuds" were less commonly available, I've seen a home user make sleds out of wood that did the job. Now, I'm looking forward to seeing the first Sun JBOD loaded up with CNC-milled mahogany sleds. It'll look great. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: an...@purplecow.org jabber: an...@interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
