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.
I am worried that Sun is primarily interested in new business and tends to not offer replacement/new drives for as long as the actual service-life of the array. What is the poor customer to do when Sun is no longer willing to offer a service contract and Sun is no longer willing to sell drives (or even the carriers) for the array? Sometimes it is only a matter of weeks before Sun stops offering supportive components. For example, my Ultra 40 was only discontinued a month or so ago but already Sun somehow no longer lists memory for it (huh?). Of course this discussion has nothing to do with ZFS. 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
