On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Now, I'm sure not ALL drives offered at Newegg could qualify; but the question is, how much do I give up by buying an enterprise-grade drive from a major manufacturer, compared to the Sun-certified drive?
If you have a Sun service contract, you give up quite a lot. If a Sun drive fails every other day, then Sun will replace that Sun drive every other day, even if the system warranty has expired. But if it is a non-Sun drive, then you have to deal with a disinterested drive manufacturer, which could take weeks or months.
My experiences thus far is that if you pay for a Sun service contract, then you should definitely pay extra for Sun branded parts.
Hopefully Oracle will do better than Sun at explaining the benefits and services provided by a service contract.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
