On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:26 AM, R.G. Keen wrote: > > “Disk drives cost $100”: yes, I fully agree, with minor exceptions. End of > marketing, which is where the cost per drive drops significantly, is > different from end of life – I hope!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-life_(product) Some vendors use EOSL to signify the end of service life, after which time the product will no longer be serviced or warranted. The actual EOSL can change since the product is no longer manufactured. For hardware, when the warranty reserve is exhausted, EOSL may be forced. For consumer disks, I think a model of 1 year of life + 3 years warranty is fairly consistent. For enterprise disks, the enterprise market demands longer warranty periods, like 5 years. Warranty is a non-zero cost for the manufacturer that is reflected in the price. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
