On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Adam Leventhal <a...@eng.sun.com> wrote:
> Right, which is an absolutely piss poor design decision and why every major >> storage vendor right-sizes drives. What happens if I have an old maxtor >> drive in my pool whose "500g" is just slightly larger than every other mfg >> on the market? You know, the one who is no longer making their own drives >> since being purchased by seagate. I can't replace the drive anymore? >> *GREAT*. >> > > > Sun does "right size" our drives. Are we talking about replacing a device > bought from sun with another device bought from Sun? If these are just > drives that fell off the back of some truck, you may not have that > assurance. > > Adam > > -- > Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl > Since it's done in software by HDS, NetApp, and EMC, that's complete bullshit. Forcing people to spend 3x the money for a "Sun" drive that's identical to the seagate OEM version is also bullshit and a piss-poor answer. --Tim
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