Bryan Allen wrote: > +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | On 2009-02-01 16:29:59, 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. > > A specific example of why this policy drives me crazy: > > X4150. 8 disk bays. SAS HBA, SATA onboard. > > In its initial incarnation, the SAS HBA was optional (this was > "fixed" soon after its release, but I got bitten by it, ordering > it before support even knew it was released). I had also read > that Sun would be selling 2.5" SATA disks for the system by the > end of the year (2008). > > Regardless, mixing SAS and SATA in this system would would be > incredibly useful for any number of applications. > > Sun does not sell 2.5" SATA disks for the X4150, and I cannot > purchase sleds. > > Further: X4150s are presumably commonly deployed for database > work (that's what both of mine do, along with a lot else). > > According to zilstat (thank you, Richard!), r/w SSDs would prove > beneficial. > > Sun does not sell SSDs for the X4150, and I cannot purchase > sleds. > > Obviously, I could buy 73GB SAS disks and simply repurpose their > sleds. I hope everyone (who is a consumer) can agree that sucks. > > <rant> > > The company I work for is a small ESP; we've been around forever > (1995), and until I moved us to Solaris two years ago, we were a > pure Linux shop. > > We like Sun software. We like Sun hardware. We had a (small) part > to play in getting DTrace into Perl 5.10. We're proponents of the > company and its technology. > > As with everyone else who has asked for this sort of thing, I > just wish Sun would offer me a bit more flexibility so I can more > effectively do my job using their gear. >
+1 The astute observer will note that the bracket for the X41xx family works elsewhere. For example, http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SunFireX4150/components#Disks XRA-SS2CF-73G10K contains 541-2123 http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/7410/components#Disks XTA7410-LOGZ18GB contains 570-1182 XTA7410-READZ100G contains 541-2123 But that is just the mechanical parts. Unfortunately, there is also firmware to be considered, though that tends to solve itself over time. One would think that Sun could have leveraged the common chassis, but they do not seem capable of doing so. Don't look for logic here, there is none. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
