On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:19:57 -0700, Ron Hawkins wrote: > >I'd like to know if the Seagate or Hitachi drive from Fry's includes an >account SE, a CE to install it, phone home monitoring, non-disruptive >replacement, a dynamic spare, FC or SAS active/active dual ports, and access >to a guy like me with a lab to recreate and advise on your critical >performance problems? > >Does someone turn up in the middle of the night with a replacement when a >drive you purchase from the internet dies, or does it take a month to get a >replacement under warranty? Like the old adage says "you get what you pay >for."
I'm not passing judgement. Just tossed a fact or two out there. But since you ask, how about they limit themselves to 500% markup ??? Or 600% ??? That still cuts our cost more than half. >And of course it is not price gouging for Mainframe disk. You vendor will >add all that support cost, margin, whatever, whether it's formatted for >Mainframe or Open Systems. Do you think that your argument is a bit like >using the primary cost of rubber to compare the cost of the windshield wiper >blades on my Mustang with a Ferrari. No, I don't. I have no problem with anyone making a decent profit. But what is a decent profit ??? Are you saying they charge us 15 times retail for a disk so they can give us all the cool software that makes it all work for free ??? Every piece of that hardware has a cost associated with it. Even the power cords are separately priced. It's just a whole lot easier to compare when they throw a shiny cabinet around commodity disk. Kind of maddening actually, but whatever. I'm not even saying it's not worth it. It works great. I wish I would have thought of it... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
