Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-11 Thread Ross
Yes, but pricing that's so obviously disconnected with cost leads customers to feel they're being ripped off. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-11 Thread Miles Nordin
bf == Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bf since the dawn of time since the dawn of time Sun has been playing these games with hard drive ``sleds''. I still have sparc32 stuff on the shelf with missing/extra sleds. bf POTS line bf cell phone bf You are free to select

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-11 Thread Ian Collins
Will Murnane wrote: If the prices on disks were lower on these, they would be interesting for low-end businesses or even high-end home users. The chassis is within reach of reasonable, but the disk prices look ludicrously high from where I sit. An empty one only costs $3k, sure, but fill it

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-11 Thread David Schairer
The admin user doesn't have any access to customer data; just could kill off sessions, etc. --- World-class email, DNS, web- and app-hosting services, www.concentric.com . On Jul 11, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Will Murnane wrote: If the prices on disks were lower on these,

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Tim wrote: 20k list gets you into a decked out storevault with FCP/iSCSI/NFS... For being just a jbod this thing is ridiculously overpriced, sorry. I'm normally the first one to defend Sun when it come to decisions made due to an enterprise customer base, but this will

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-11 Thread Ian Collins
Tim wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Murnane wrote: If the prices on disks were lower on these, they would be interesting for low-end businesses or even high-end home users. The chassis is

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-10 Thread Ross
Heh, I like the way you think Tim. I'm sure Sun hate people like us. The first thing I tested when I had an x4500 on trial was to make sure an off the shelf 1TB disk worked in it :) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-10 Thread Tommaso Boccali
.. And the answer was yes I hope. we are sriously thinking of buying 48 1 tb disk to replace those in a 1 year old thumper please confirm it again :) 2008/7/10, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Heh, I like the way you think Tim. I'm sure Sun hate people like us. The first thing I tested when I

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-10 Thread Kyle McDonald
Tommaso Boccali wrote: .. And the answer was yes I hope. we are sriously thinking of buying 48 1 tb disk to replace those in a 1 year old thumper please confirm it again :) In my 15 year experience with Sun Products, I've never known one to care about drive brand, model, or firmware.

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-10 Thread Richard Elling
Kyle McDonald wrote: Tommaso Boccali wrote: .. And the answer was yes I hope. we are sriously thinking of buying 48 1 tb disk to replace those in a 1 year old thumper please confirm it again :) In my 15 year experience with Sun Products, I've never known one to care

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-10 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Kyle McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my 15 year experience with Sun Products, I've never known one to care about drive brand, model, or firmware. If it was standards compliant for both physical interface, and protocol the machine would use it in my

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Chad Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the announcement for those new Sun JBOD devices mentioned the other day. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-07/sunflash.20080709.1.xml ckl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-09 Thread Tim
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Chad Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the announcement for those new Sun JBOD devices mentioned the other day. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-07/sunflash.20080709.1.xml ckl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list