On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 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? You can still procure replacement drives for real vintage kit, like the A1000/D1000 arrays. I doubt your argument is valid. As a side point, by the time these arrays are dead & buried, the sleds for them will no doubt be as common as spuds (and don't we all have at least 30 of those lying around?) > 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?). If your trusty Sun partner couldn't supply you with memory for an Ultra-40, I'd take that as a sign to find a new partner. EOSL products vanish from websites but parts can still be ordered for them. -- 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
