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 > about drive brand, model, or firmware. If it was standards compliant for > both physical interface, and protocol the machine would use it in my > experience. This was mainly with host attached JBOD though (which the > x4500 and x4540 are.) In RAID arrays my guess is that it wouldn't care > then either, though you'd be opening yourself up to wierd interactions > between the array and the drive firmware if you didn't use a tested > combination. >
In general, yes, industry standard drives should be industry standard. We do favor the enterprise-class drives, mostly because they are lower cost over time -- it costs real $$ to answer the phone for a field replacement request. Usually, there is a Sun-specific label because though we source from many vendors and products like hardware RAID controllers get upset when the replacement disk reports a different size. > The drive carriers were a different story though. Some were easy to get. > Others extrememly hard. There was one carrier that we couldn't get > separately even when I worked at Sun. > Drive carriers are a different ballgame. AFAIK, there is no industry standard carrier that meets our needs. We require service LEDs for many of our modern disk carriers, so there is a little bit of extra electronics there. You will see more electronics for some of the newer products as I explain here: http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/this_ain_t_your_daddy I won't get into the "support" issue... it hurts my brain. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
