On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, JDW wrote:
If you equate "not Sun" to "cheap" or "brand-X" then your input is
duly noted, but in my opinion other vendors of quality equipment do
exist.
Absolutely. Every time I have compared products of a similar grade I
have found that Sun is price and feature competitive. In the past I
found that some vendors had a lower entry price, but once you
populated the system it cost as much, or more than Sun's offering.
You should of course also look at products from IBM, HP, EMC, NetApp,
etc., if you require mission critical storage.
I also did not say that Sun hardware locks up. But virtually every
SAS/SATA adapter on the HCL has people who've said terrible things
about it, such as the example I provided, which is what I was
referring to.
Yes. These folks would walk up and pull a drive out of a cold-swap
SATA bay and then complain when the hardware (or OS) acted confused.
Make sure that you are using a system with ECC memory.
That's an interesting point. I wasn't aware you could buy servers
without it.
Dell advertises some "servers" lacking ECC memory. Some vendors are
in a race to the bottom while others are dumping the low end and
racing to the top.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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