This is true. Unfortunately, in my experience, controller quality is still very important. ZFS can preserve data all day long, but that doesn't help much if the controller misbehaves (you may have good data that can't be retrieved or manipulated properly - it's happened to me with whitebox hardware).
If anyone buys whitebox hardware for ZFS in production, make sure the vendor will give you support/warranty for OpenSolaris/ZFS. On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:33 PM, jpdrawneek <j...@drawneek.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Mertol Ozyoney wrote: > > But the whole point of zfs is that you can use inexpensive drives and with > enough in RAID to make it reliable. >> >> Best regards >> Mertol >> >> Mertol Ozyoney Storage Practice - Sales Manager >> >> Sun Microsystems, TR >> Istanbul TR >> Phone +902123352200 >> Mobile +905339310752 >> Fax +902123352222 >> Email mertol.ozyo...@sun.com >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org >> [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling >> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:24 PM >> To: John-Paul Drawneek >> Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers >> >> 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. >> -- richard >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
