On 2010-Feb-03 00:12:43 +0800, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: >On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> >> Now, I'm sure not ALL drives offered at Newegg could qualify; but the >> question is, how much do I give up by buying an enterprise-grade drive >> from a major manufacturer, compared to the Sun-certified drive? > >If you have a Sun service contract, you give up quite a lot. If a Sun >drive fails every other day, then Sun will replace that Sun drive >every other day, even if the system warranty has expired. But if it >is a non-Sun drive, then you have to deal with a disinterested drive >manufacturer, which could take weeks or months.
OTOH, if I'm paying 10x the street drive price upfront, plus roughly the street price annually in "support", I can save a fair amount of money by just buying a pile of spare drives - when one fails, just swap it for a spare and it doesn't matter if it takes weeks for the vendor to swap it. >Hopefully Oracle will do better than Sun at explaining the benefits >and services provided by a service contract. I know that trying to get Sun to renew a service contract is like pulling teeth but Oracle is far worse - as far as I can tell, Oracle contracts are deliberately designed so you can't be certain whether you are compliant or not. -- Peter Jeremy _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
